A Vietnam Helicopter pilot/crew with period tunic featuring airborne jump badge, ammo belt, custom printed head and 360 leg printing! MinifigCat helmet included.
The Vietnam War was “the helicopter war,” said now-retired Maj. Gen. Carl H. McNair. “Over 12,000 helicopters — Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps — carried the fight to the enemy.” McNair was himself a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War. He served in theater...
Rattler One-Seven: A Vietnam Helicopter Pilot's War Story by Chuck Gross. University of North...Guilmartin, John F.Air Force Research InstituteAir & Space Power Journal
During the Vietnam War, U.S. Army medevac teams flew into hostile combat areas, rescuing an estimated 900,000 wounded soldiers and Vietnamese civilians over the course of 11 years. Nearly 50 years on, those helicopter pilots and medics were awarded with the Congressional Gold Medal this week...
In 1963, Brady was sent to the Army Aviation School at Fort Rucker, Alabama, to be trained as a helicopter pilot. He received his wings in December and the following month was sent to the Republic of Vietnam, assigned to the 57th Medical Detachment (Helicopter Ambulance). When the unit’...
The average infantryman in the South Pacific duringWorld War IIsaw about40 days of combat in four years. The average infantryman inVietnamsaw about240 days of combat in one yearthanks to the mobility of the helicopter. One out of every 10 Americans who served in Vietnam was a casualty. 58...
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Investigations into the massacre and allegations of a Pentagon coverup were launched after a complaint by a helicopter pilot, Hugh Thompson Jr., who saved 16 Vietnamese children in the village and later testified against Calley. Multiple other soldiers at the scene also spoke ...
I Corps 1964-1965 Đà Nẵng AB; Cam Ranh Bay AB; SGN, Marine Medium Helicopter Sqdrn. 365 Deporter, Stephen D. ARMY Vietnam Era Veteran II Corps 1968-1970 Pleiku, K Co, 75th Rangers Dickey, William A. ARMY Vietnam Veteran IV Corps 1969-1970 Carolyn, Buttons, Barbara, D 2...
The heroic actionsof a USAF special operations helicopter pilot, who saved multiple American lives during a secret 1969 mission in Laos, are getting a renewed look as a Congressman is urging the Pentagon to upgrade the previous award of an Air Force Cross to the Medal of Honor. ...