A Chronology Of Marine Helicopters In Vietnam 1962-1975see also Order of Battle The first Marine Corps helicopters to serve in Vietnam arrived just four months after the first American helicopters were deployed in-country. On 15 April 1962, a Sikorsky H
During the Vietnam War from 1962 to 1975, helicopter crews were able to locate their fellow Marines on the ground by asking them to “pop a smoke" in the landing zone. The brightly colored smoke grenade identified the ground unit location, and provided landing zone wind information to the ...
The record of a Marine battalion in Vietnam, 1964-69, by a former infantry captain. Lehrack's technique is to record various NCOs, privates, and line officers, then to distill their accounts and give them a chronology. He sets this worm's-eye view in wider context; for instance, he ...
I now know why men who have been to war yearn to reunite. Not to tell stories or look at old pictures. Not to laugh or weep. Comrades gather because they long to be with the men who once acted their best, men who suffered and sacrificed, who were stripped raw, right down to their...
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