The Museum’s Huey served with four units in Vietnam between 1966 and 1970 ... generator similar to the one it carried for the 11th Combat Aviation Air Battalion. The unmistakable sound of ...

and another 11 were destroyed under non-combat conditions. McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II Up there with the Huey as an icon of Vietnam, the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II was the most prolific ...

He made another point: Combat vets from Iraq ... on patrol north of Tam Ky, South Vietnam, with a unit of the 23rd Infantry Division, known as Americal. The Huey’s mission—and every mission ...

The U.S. aircraft deployed during the war ranged from helicopters like the Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey ... combat flight was in 1962, doing photo reconaissance during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In ...

The Bell UH-1 helicopter, popularly known as the "Huey," was the workhorse aircraft for U.S. forces in Vietnam ... gun proved its mettle in countless combat situations. The M60 fired up to ...

The decade also marked the first major combat deployment of an integrated military to Vietnam. The Vietnam War saw the highest proportion of African-Americans ever to serve in an American war.

The Huey will be at the New Century Airport until Tuesday and then will travel to Fort Leavenworth and then Topeka for more ride-alongs. The Huey will be at the New Century Airport until Tuesday ...

The best of these was the A-1 Skyraider, a star in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and the last U.S. military propeller-driven aircraft of its type to see combat. The A-1 was retired from active ...

Al Cochran was a combat engineer in the war and comes to Veterans Memorial Park to remember ... The new memorial is a permanent replacement for a Vietnam-era “Huey” helicopter that was heavily damaged ...