It looked odd, but the Piasecki H-21 was no joke. This early combat helicopter led the charge in Vietnam’s first air assault ...

The MiG-17 wasn't the only aircraft developed in the early 1950s to fly in Vietnam. Republic Aviation's F-105 Thunderchief emerged as a supersonic fighter bomber meant to replace the F-84F ...

ERWIN, Tenn. (WJHL) — Helicopters are synonymous with military operations today. If it weren’t for the Vietnam War, things wouldn’t be that way. It’s dubbed the “Helicopter War,” as ...

The crew of a helicopter early in the war took the name as their call-sign, according to the Army. The Dustoffs extracted 900,000 wounded U.S., Vietnamese, and allied soldiers from May 1962 to ...

He served in Vietnam from 1968 to 1970 as a maintenance crew chief on Huey Helicopter 733, the same exact one that's on display at the EAA Aviation Museum in Oshkosh.

Instead, he became a helicopter pilot, flying Huey gunships. Riede was deployed to Quang Tri Province, Vietnam, with the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing. Being a helicopter pilot in Vietnam was one of the ...

The Nebraska Vietnam Veterans Memorial Foundation welcomed an iconic piece of history early Wednesday morning and it will serve as a badge of honor for those Killed in Action in the Vietnam War.

The second part of this report, “Angels With Rotors Part 2: U.S. MEDEVAC Helicopter Operations From Vietnam to Present Day” can be found here. TAGGED: H-13 H-19 H-23 H-5 helicopter Hiller ...

Helicopter crews of the Vietnam War known as “Dustoff” crews will be the latest military group to receive the Congressional Gold Medal, which honors the estimated 3,000 pilots, medics, and ...