Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgAudio of this article is brought to you by the Air &...

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgThe Pentagon is slowly gathering information on Tuesday’s low Earth orbit collision...

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgMarine Corps. Gen. James Mattis, commander of US Joint Forces Command and...

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgAir-Land Pow-wow: Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz met with...

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgThe Senate on Wednesday confirmed William Lynn to be deputy secretary of...

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgMaj. Gen. Bradley Heithold assumed command of the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance,...

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgLt. Col. Edward Vaughan, the Air National Guard’s former deputy director of...

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgMembers of Air Force Reserve Command’s 512th Airlift Wing at Dover AFB,...

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgHarry Hillaker, 89, a long-time aeronautical engineer with General Dynamics who is...

It was 36 years ago yesterday, Feb. 12, 1973, that the Air Force began an eight-week airlift mission known as Operation Homecoming to repatriate 597 US prisoners of war from North Vietnam. The US had just signed the Paris Accords about two weeks prior that ended the US involvement in the Vietnam War. As a condition of the accord, the POWs were released. C-141 transports began flying the freed POWs out of Hanoi on Feb. 12, while C-9 aircraft flew smaller numbers of them out of locations in South Vietnam and Hong Kong. During the first phase of the operation, the returning servicemembers were flown to Clark Air Base in the Philippines. Later, they were transported to bases in the continental US. The operation concluded on April 4, 1973. In 2006, the Air Force placed the “Hanoi Taxi,” the first C-141 that flew into Hanoi into the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, after one final flight with about 100 former Vietnam War POWs aboard. (For more, read this week’s Airman’s Roll Call and Air Force Magazine's Honor Bound.)

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgAir Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaFeb. 11, 2009 Sortie Type...