Lt. j.g. John Koelsch was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism as a rescue helicopter pilot during the Korean War. (U.S. Naval ... forced him to bail out of his Vought F4U-5 ...

An 88-year-old American Medal of Honor winner from the Korean War this week wrapped up an unprecedented trip to North Korea to search for the remains of his wingman, who died after a crash landing ...

The participation of Soviet pilots in the Korean war was made public in the Soviet Union only in the 1970-1980s. ... F4U-5 Corsairs provide close air support to U.S. Marines fighting Chinese ...

Former pilot, now 88, visiting North Korea. Thomas Hudner plans to see Korean War crash site. He tried to save Jesse Brown. Brown was first African-American pilot in U.S. Navy ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Kenneth Schechter, a Korean War pilot who landed his plane while blinded from a wound, has died. He was 83. Schechter died on Dec. 11 in Fairfield, Calif., his son, Rob ...

The framework of "Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship and Sacrifice" by military writer Adam Makos is the close relationship of two Navy pilots — Tom Hudner and Jesse Brown — during ...

WASHINGTON -- Closing a curious chapter of Korean War history, the Pentagon announced Friday that it had identified the remains of an Air Force pilot whose jet crashed in China ...

During the Korean War, Lt. j.g. John Koelsch, equipped with a promising new helicopter, dedicated his service to rescuing ...