Given Brown’s long flying career, that’s saying a ... Two Army soldiers watch a wave of Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopters during the Vietnam War, ca. 1967. The Vietnam Helicopter Pilots ...

Opening Shot: An archival shot of helicopters flying over a rural area in Vietnam. “It’s fifty years since America’s war in Vietnam,” says narrator Ethan Hawke, “A war that changed the ...

Vietnam veterans’ recordings, videos, photographs, drawings, letters and other documents are stored by the Library of ...

After the conclusion of World War ... flying over the battlefield in order to distinguish the enemy from friendlies. However, when discussing American jets that made a difference during the ...

We’ve been learning about Karl Porisch’s Vietnam service, piloting Marine CH-46 helicopters out of Marble Mountain Airfield south of Danang. He recalled that night medevac missions were challenging ...

To this day, little is known in the West about the fate of the more than 200,000 Vietnamese prisoners of war who fell into ... and hurled them from flying helicopters. They supposedly competed ...

a revolutionary upgrade from the reciprocating piston design of earlier helicopters. Vietnam’s high humidity would necessitate continual improvements to the engine as the Huey became the taxi of ...

Some volunteered to go to Vietnam. But many of the ... t leave [a soldier] alone to fight the war with the knowledge he learned to fight with." Flying by safely in their helicopters, men like ...