The Vought F-8 Crusader was the US Navy's last purpose-built "day fighter," a gunfighter in an era when missiles were supposed to have made dogfighting obsolete, and this episode of the History Channel's Dogfights series tests that plane against the MiG-17 over Vietnam. It centers on two specific engagements, May 19 and December 14, 1967, flown from carriers at Yankee Station off Da Nang. Pilots Paul Speer, Phil Wood, and Richard Schaffert narrate their own missions, describing the combat air patrols, the split-second maneuvering against a lighter, more agile opponent, and the training that got them into the cockpit in the first place. The film reconstructs the fights through a mix of archival gun-camera and carrier footage, staged reenactments, and computer-generated aircraft, tracking the Crusader's cannon and the MiG's turning radius move by move. It does not limit itself to the American side, noting the risks the North Vietnamese pilots faced and the toll the air war took on people on the ground below the fight.