Capt. Nguyen Hung checks over his Vietnamese F5 "Falcon" prior to take-off on a strike mission. Capt. Hung is the commander of South Vietnam's 25 most elite pilots who fly the Republic's only jet fighter planes, the F5 "Falcons."

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