It was after midnight on June 19, 1968, when U.S. Navy Lt. Clyde Lassen and his helicopter crew flew into the jungle of North Vietnam to rescue two Navy aviators whose fighter jet had been shot down.

ALA has selected "James" by Percival Everett and "A Walk in the Park" by Kevin Fedarko as the winners of the 2025 Carnegie ...

The Tuskegee Airmen, known as the “Red Tails” were the nation’s first Black military pilots who served in a segregated WWII ...