He volunteered for combat duty in the Vietnam War and was spared injury when his A-4 Skyhawk jet was shot accidentally by a ...

Lawmakers are working to award the Congressional Gold Medal to retired Cmdr. Everett Alvarez Jr., who spent eight and a half ...

j.g. Alvarez was flying a mission in his A-4 Skyhawk off the USS Constellation ... Alvarez was the first U.S. fighter pilot shot down over North Vietnam in the war. "I said to myself, 'If I ...

Lawmakers are working to award the Congressional Gold Medal to retired Cmdr. Everett Alvarez Jr., who spent eight and a half years in captivity after being shot down during a bombing mission during ...

Laos and North Vietnam. Alvarez had been flying combat missions in 1964 from the USS Constellation, when the A-4 Skyhawk that he piloted was shot down. “Unfortunately, I managed to put my ...

Local legend and former Purdy resident, Retired U.S. Navy Cpt. Edward Estes, “flew west” on Oct. 7, 2024. A Douglas A-4 ...

On July 29, 1967, aboard the USS Forrestal (CVA-59), Dunnegan was deployed in combat operations in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of Vietnam ... fuel tank of an A-4 Skyhawk.

Daisetta High School student and aspiring pilot This year marked the 40th anniversary of the Wings Over Houston Airshow, located at Joint Reserve Base Ellington in Houston, ...

then spent the next six years as a US Navy “tailhooker” flying A-4 Skyhawk jets from aircraft carriers (including a combat tour in Vietnam). Brad and his wife Carol then spent most of the next ...

The USS America, a storied Cold War aircraft carrier, went down in history after being used in a unique 2005 Navy test to ...