Ahead of its time in performance and design, the Lockheed AH-56 seemed like a promising attack helicopter for the United States Army during the Vietnam War, but instead ended up on the chopping block.

They started using them as attack platforms ... helicopters throughout the Vietnam War. A lumbering, loitering, extremely heavy howitzer-equipped Huey helicopter would likely have been too ...

Two Bell UH-1Bs, flown by the Navy’s lone helicopter attack unit in Vietnam, patrol the country’s south on a 1967 mission to support Navy SEALs. The Mekong Delta is a vast, swampy system of ...

Source: Vanity Fair Children also witnessed horrific violence in Vietnam. In this photo, children on their way home from school pass the bodies of dead Viet Cong soldiers. In another photo by Faas ...

Long before the Vietnam conflict had ended, the “Huey” (its original Army designation was HU-1A, for Helicopter, Utility, Model 1A) was probably the most recognizable helicopter in the world ...