Colonel Gerry Berry, USMC Ret. speaks next to the helicopter he flew in Vietnam during Operation Frequent Wind, a CH-46D(E) Sea Knight, callsign “Lady Ace 09,” during an event at the Flying ...

Sometime between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. on April 30, 1975 — 50 years ago today — the helicopters finally returned for the last Marines from Massachusetts. The Republic of Vietnam, widely known as ...

helicopter escort, and light ground attack. Seven Broncos were lost during the Vietnam War. The Bronco continued to serve in the Marine Corps, seeing action in Operation Desert Storm before ...

Understanding the aircraft used by the U.S. Marine Corps provides insight into joint ... UH-1 Huey that played an important role in the Vietnam War. The Venom can perform a wide range of missions ...

We excluded trainer aircraft. One staple of the Marine Corps is the AH-1Z Viper ... which rose to prominence during the Vietnam War. Notably, one of the biggest upgrades from its predecessors ...

Fifty years later, the surreal images of U.S. sailors and Marines scrambling to push ... futile effort to win "hearts and minds" in Vietnam. The helicopters had to go to make room for more ...

He stated that even though he wasn’t in the navy, he did spend a lot of time repairing the helicopters that landed on the naval ships. Vietnam veteran and associate member of the Marine Corps ...

It marked a crucial milestone in a two-decade-long process to replace the Vietnam-era ... The final VH-92A helicopter was delivered earlier this month, giving the USMC 21 operational aircraft ...