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 ...

In 1967, legendary U.S. Air Force pilot Robin Olds devised the daring Operation Bolo, a masterful ruse that lured North Vietnamese MiG-21s into combat with F-4 Phantoms disguised as F-105s. The ...

On this day in aviation history, January 2, 1967, one of the greatest bait-and-switch operations in military aviation played out in the skies above North Vietnam. Operation Bolo, devised by Robin Olds ...