Capt. Richard S. Ritchie, flying with Capt. Charles B. DeBellevue (weapons system officer), shoots down his fifth MiG-21 near Hanoi, becoming the Air Force’s first ace since the Korean War.
The Air Force is on track to reach its annual goal of graduating 1,500 new pilots that had proved elusive to this point, one year after the service launched a sweeping overhaul of its undergraduate pilot training program, Air Education and Training Command said Sept. 14.
