The F-4 Phantom looked too big, too smoky, and too complicated to become the defining American fighter of the Vietnam War.

Combat over Vietnam placed extraordinary pressure on American fighter pilots and few aircraft symbolized that era more than ...

It's December 1966, and a U.S. pilot is leading a squadron of six F-4 Phantoms on a dangerous bombing mission over North Vietnam. Every mile of their 100 mile route is dotted with North Vietnam's ...