Major Leo Thorsness (now Lieutenant Colonel) was awarded a Medal of Honor for his actions behind the flight stick of an F-105 on April 19, 1967. While on a bombing mission, he kept MiG fighters ...

Slightly newer than the MiG-17, the MiG-19 entered production in 1955 as the Soviet Union's first fighter capable of attaining level supersonic flight and the world's first operational supersonic ...