U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Donald W. Downing was assigned to the 557th Tactical Fighter Squadron during the Vietnam War.

Lt. Col. Donald Downing was piloting an F-4C Phantom II aircraft during a night mission when his plane disappeared in a ...

An 81-year-old Vietnam War veteran was killed while piloting a plane that crashed in a field in Colorado on Friday. Alex Benson Watson, a Nebraska man known among his friends and family as Ben ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Federal officials have identified the remains of a U.S. Air Force pilot from Wisconsin who went missing ...

Early on a foggy Christmas morning 80 years ago, a plane filled with soldiers was flying over northern York County, straining ...

(WFRV) – After decades of investigation, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) has announced that a Wisconsin pilot killed during the Vietnam War has been identified ... rescue two people from ...

Lt. Col. Donald Downing was reported killed in action in April 1978 after going missing in Vietnam in September 1967.

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When Capt. Hugh Nelson’s injured helicopter gunner lay trapped following a crash landing, Nelson made the conscious decision ...

Army Pfc. Kenneth J. David drew enemy fire to save the wounded. Capt. Hugh R. Nelson Jr. was killed while using his body to ...

The aircraft U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Donald W. Downing, 33, of Columbus, Wisconsin, was in went down in September 1967.