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 ...
PORTAGE, MI — A powerful moment of nostalgia struck Kalamazoo resident Bob Short while boarding an aircraft that defined his experience in the Vietnam War. The Air Zoo partnered with the Michigan ...
Sep. 17—FAIRMONT — One night in 1970, Lucky Strike went down. Lucky Strike was a Bell UH-1 Huey, assigned to fly perimeter defense and hunt hostile Vietcong activity in the Mekong River Delta region ...
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 ...
Helicopters have their roots in the pre-World War II era. Renaissance genius Leonardo Da Vinci famously conceptualized his aerial screw as far back as the 15th century, though the inventor never built ...
While the helicopter flyover garnered cheers and applause from the crowd, it was the 2,000-pound bronze sculpture of three soldiers preparing to drop from a UH-1D Huey helicopter into a dangerous ...
He was a helicopter pilot they called “Combat Kelly,” and in the early years of the Vietnam War, Maj. Charles Kelly set the example for the daredevil flyers who would come to be called Army “Dustoff” ...
People flee Saigon April 1975 with the help of the U.S. military. American involvement in the Vietnam War came to an end when troops from communist North Vietnam invaded Saigon, the capital of the ...
You might be hearing sounds from the past over the Kansas City metro this week. A Vietnam-era Bell UH-1 helicopter is offering rides and history lessons to the public in Gardner. The aircraft is ...