“The Ballad of Robin Olds” by Dick Jonas (Lt. Col, USAF, ret.). But it was his Vietnam service—more specifically during Operation Bolo on January 2, 1967—that would cement his status as a brilliant ...

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 ...

This is the story of Operation BOLO, the daring plan led by Colonel Robin Olds during the Vietnam War. Flying the F-4 Phantom, Olds orchestrated a legendary dogfight that lured and defeated North ...