Operation Bolo, devised by Robin Olds and Daniel “Chappie” James, Jr., sought to neutralize the powerful fighter in the arsenal of the North Vietnamese Air Force, the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 ...

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 ...

but it did produce some of the most epic air-to-air battles of the Vietnam War this side of January 1967’s Operation Bolo.