Army pilot Capt. Larry Liss arrived at the Green Beret outpost at Cau Song Be, Vietnam ... close to their helicopter. Once aboard the Huey, Johnson and another special operations adviser helped ...

TEMPLE— When he was shot down over North Vietnam during a search-and-rescue mission on September 20, 1965, retired U.S. Air ...

An intimate crowd of veterans, their families and community members gathered at Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and ...

More than a year of intensive training to become a U.S. Army ... helicopter pilot Robert W. Barrett, who flew the medevac mission that saved DeFazio’s life, recently were reunited at the Vietnam ...

Retired New York Army National ... as combat helicopter pilot beginning with the Vietnam War and retired 43 years later in 2010, received a belated Meritorious Service Medal and a special souvenir ...

It wasn’t until after Army Capt. Larry Taylor had picked up four of his fellow soldiers during a raging firefight in Vietnam – the men clinging onto the outside of his helicopter, as there was ...

(WJHL) — Helicopters are synonymous with military operations today. If it weren’t for the Vietnam War ... anybody that wants to fly, we need pilots bad,'” said Master Army Aviator Thomas ...