Joe Holt is an aviation pioneer, having battled racial discrimination to eventually teach thousands of future pilots to enjoy ...

Ahead of its time in performance and design, the Lockheed AH-56 seemed like a promising attack helicopter for the United ...

The MiG pilots had completely misjudged the Skyraiders, possibly assuming their speed advantage would ensure early ...

General Westmoreland wanted nuclear weapons sent to South Vietnam in the event of defeat, though President Johnson swiftly ...

Bridging history and memory in the classroom. I am now old enough to be teaching the children of my first students. Among that early group were many who had arrived in the United States as “boat ...

Fortunately, the “howitzer Huey” never materialized. It was likely an unworkable concept, given the helicopter’s limitations.

When daylight came and helicopters were finally able to remove ... He was the first of 268 Medal of Honor recipients of the Vietnam War. He spent the rest of his 30-plus-year career in the Army ...

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We saw pretty much the same thing in Vietnam, pitting brother ... in her insightful book called Nuclear War, had only recently described a helicopter crash involving the US president who was ...

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He then completed the Marine Corps Officer Basic Course and primary Army helicopter flight training ... was the workhorse for the Marine Corps in Vietnam. It was a good choice.

“He’s actually one of our war heroes, but he kept pretty quiet about it,” Mr Lee said. One of Tom’s favourite stories was how Smokey once took over the controls of a helicopter in Vietnam ...