The Cold War coincided almost perfectly with the rise of the jet age. In the denouement of World War II, American and Soviet forces scrambled to secure jet engine technology developed by German scientists. In the early 1950s, the United States and the USSR tested the new technology in clashes over the skies of Korea in places like MiG Alley. However, Vietnam, another piece on the Cold War chessboard, would be entirely different. In the 20 years after the
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