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Recently, a group of Vietnam War veterans were finally ... Petersen found a clearing, saved his crew, and, luckily, saw friendly forces surrounding his Huey. But it's what happened next, that ...
Huey helicopter pilots and their crew chiefs and door gunners hold an exalted position of respect and admiration. This Memorial Day weekend visitors to the Vietnam War Foundation and Museum in ...
Most of our crew chiefs and door gunners were ... the Coors beer-themed rocket pod attached to a UH-1 Huey helicopter during the Vietnam War. Photo courtesy of Jim Koch. For missions, 92nd crews ...
The helicopter was commissioned for use in Vietnam in 1967. Log books show the Huey had more ... and Navy after the war. Dobbs and Reed were the second and third former crew members to visit ...
And now those who flew the wounded between combat zones and field hospitals during the Vietnam War will be among them ... of Fort Worth piloted those Huey choppers. Over 11 years, crews rescued ...
They flew rescue missions throughout the Vietnam War, the whump-whump-whump of their UH-1 “Huey” rotors the sound ... If you were a Dustoff medic, crew chief or pilot you stood a 33% chance ...
Jerry Paul, a Vietnam War veteran now in the Veterans ... Paul flew as the crew chief of a Dustoff helicopter, a Huey helicopter used to ferry wounded from the battlefields of Vietnam to hospitals.
WASHINGTON (WCBD) – A Citadel graduate who was killed in action while saving his crew members during the Vietnam War posthumously ... Nelson was commanding an armed Huey helicopter for a search ...
The Dustoff Crews of the Vietnam War Congressional Gold Medal Act won final approval this week. It honors the estimated 3,000 pilots, medics, and crew who ... with three UH-1 Huey helicopters.