Lawmakers have renewed an effort to award the Medal of Honor to Maj. James Capers Jr., a reconnaissance Marine who in 1967 ...

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

One by one, men in their 70s and 80s climbed up and entered the AH-64E Apache attack helicopter at Hunter ... who had the veterans sign a Vietnam-era Army helmet that he intends to add to his ...

Two years after dumping those helicopters into the sea, he was promoted to rear admiral. Pilot Berry, who also served a combat tour in Vietnam in 1969 and ’70, is also left with sadness at the ...

Helicopters have their roots in the pre-World War II era. Renaissance genius ... nose mounted 30 mm chain gun. Either pilot can slave the weapon to his helmet, allowing him to aim by simply ...

Hugh Thompson Jnr, a former US military helicopter pilot who helped stop one of the most infamous ... He persuaded people including Vietnam-era Secretary of State Dean Rusk to lobby the government to ...

Developed by Lockheed Corporation, the T-33 Shooting Star was a subsonic jet trainer designed to transition Air Force pilots from propeller-driven aircraft to the emerging era of jet propulsion ... he ...

A group of auto body students in New York State are refurbishing a piece of American history as they work on a Vietnam-era helicopter whose pilot was killed in battle back in 1968. The class at ...

He was awarded the Medal of Honor for displaying "unmatched skill and extraordinary courage" in evacuating wounded soldiers from the battlefield by helicopter ... Vietnam, where he was a "dustoff ...

HURLBURT FIELD — Nearly 70 years after Vietnam-era forward air controllers arrived ... The bronze statue, sculpted by Quiros, features a pilot's helmet with a polished visor that evokes a ...

recognizing Vietnam War-era medevac pilots with the Congressional Gold Medal. Texas Senator John Cornyn helped lead the charge to get recognition for the estimated 3,000+ helicopter pilots who ...

The iconic and unmistakable sounds of the UH-1 Huey helicopter filled ... Museum in New Century Sunday, as pilots took families for a ride on the Vietnam War-era aircraft.