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How a Teenage Pilot Flew Into the Vietnam War

Geoff Vidal may have been the youngest Australian pilot to serve in Vietnam - flying Huey helicopters in some of the most ...
ARLINGTON — The National Medal of Honor Museum got to show off its largest piece of war history, the Huey. Thursday, a group that included veterans watched as Arlington police led a procession until ...
LEBANON, Pa. (WHTM) — The Lebanon VA Medical Center welcomed a special guest — an old friend to many veterans, per se. A UH-1 Huey helicopter arrived at the hospital and is perhaps the best-known ...
You might hear sounds from the past over the Kansas City metro this week.A Vietnam-era Bell UH-1 helicopter, better known by its nickname, Huey, is offering rides and history lessons to the public in ...
It was 1966, and the Vietnam War was turning out to be unlike anything else the US military had faced before. Robert McNamara ...
Finding a package on the doorstep is usually a pleasant surprise this time of year. Tate Jones showed up for work Wednesday and found a Vietnam War-era Huey helicopter waiting for him. The Rocky ...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The very visible reminder of the Vietnam War in Santa Barbara, a Huey helicopter, is now gone after about 30 years. The local Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) Chapter 218 ...
During the Vietnam War, existence could come down to a single factor. If the Huey helicopters come, you live. If they don’t, you die. In countless nightmarish situations the sound of one’s salvation ...
YOUNGSTOWN – Vietnam veterans might get a catch in their throat when they hear the familiar and distinct “whoop, whoop” of the rotor blades as the Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter, dubbed the “Huey,” ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW CENTURY, Kan. — This weekend, families ...
Stephanie Redovan was walking in Lynch Field Park in Greensburg and she noticed the Army helicopter dedicated to a Vietnam War veteran needed some TLC. “The thing that kept echoing in my head was, ‘If ...