“We flew in the Wolfpack with Robin Olds/Some of us ain’t coming back/In a Foxtrot-Four called the Phantom II/We flew with ...

Robin Olds entered the world on July 14, 1922, in Honolulu, Hawaii, destined for the skies. His father, Major General Robert Olds, was a pioneering aviator and close associate of General Billy ...

Robin Olds, 84, an Air Force brigadier general who was a flamboyant legend of military aviation as a fighter pilot in World War II and Vietnam, died June 14 at his home in Steamboat Springs, Colo. He ...

Battle -- My early years -- Pilot training -- Off to war -- A Small event called D-Day -- The Heat of many battles -- Victories -- at last! -- Mustangs and mayhem -- R&R, second tour, and home -- ...

But it was his Vietnam service—more specifically during Operation Bolo on January 2, 1967—that would cement his status as a brilliant and unstoppable aerial warrior across two wars that took place two ...