Now some 50 years later, we can look back at the times and the mood of the country and the effect that had on those who ...

Long before the Vietnam conflict had ended, the “Huey” (its original Army designation was HU-1A, for Helicopter ... school of warfare, with gunships escorting troop carriers into enemy ...

On April 29 and 30, 1975, as North Vietnamese forces closed in on Saigon, U.S. Marine Corps pilots evacuated more than 7,000 ...

These seasoned crews formed the nucleus of the Navy’s only dedicated helicopter gunship outfit of the Vietnam War, which on April 1, 1967, was formally anointed Helicopter Attack (Light)-3.

HCMC has been festooned with flags, including the national yellow star on a red backdrop, the hammer and sickle in a nod to ...

"I said, 'No, wait a minute, I'm a gunship guy ... given to pilots and crew members on medical helicopters. The men and the machines that in the Vietnam War, pioneered an entirely new and ...

Jim Brennan served as a helicopter pilot with the 1st Cavalry Division in 1968-69 in Vietnam, but he’s on a different mission ...