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 ...

In the late 1950s, the U.S. military was in need of new troop and cargo assault helicopters to replace a motley crew of aging piston-engined aircraft. In order to have a favorable position in the ...

Six Marines and a Navy corpsman died. Eleven Marines survived. The Vietnam-era CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter sank in 40 seconds into 3,900 feet of water 14 miles from Point Loma while on a routine ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Marine Corps adopted its use in 1965 ... 1,553 miles (2,500 kilometers), made it an excellent ground support aircraft. Vietnam measures about 1,000 (1,600 kilometers) miles from north to ...

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 ...