Description. This lesson provides an overview of the Vietnam War era, using the life and death of Huey helicopter pilot Michael O'Donnell as a case study.

Helicopter crews of the Vietnam War known as “Dustoff” crews will be the latest military group to receive the Congressional Gold Medal, which honors the estimated 3,000 pilots, medics, and ...

In Vietnam, These Helicopter Scouts Saw Combat Up Close Cobras and Loaches, two vastly different aircraft, relied on each other to fight the enemy.

The Vietnam War saw the first tests of the Army’s air cavalry concept with the 1965 deployment of the experimental 1st Squadron, 9th Air Cavalry. By the war’s end, five squadrons would serve ...

Helicopters are synonymous with military operations today. If it weren't for the Vietnam War, things wouldn't be that way. It's dubbed the "Helicopter War," as they were used for everything from ...

Osborne was aided onto the helicopter by a fellow Vietnam veteran who served in the same unit but at different times. He sat in the gunner’s position and seated next to him was his daughter Lara.

In a concept drawing from November 10, 1966, Rock Island Arsenal’s Research and Development Division drafted a proposed 20-mm armed variant of the AH-1G HueyCobra for the CAS mission.

I n the 1960s, as the Vietnam War was raging, Lockheed Martin created a concept known as the AH-56 Cheyenne attack helicopter as part of their attempt to win the United States Army’s Advanced ...

The Air Force Rescue Huey helicopter has been on display at Okeechobee Veterans Park since 2013. Since then, the paint has faded, metal corroded and vandals have even stolen pieces from it.

On April 29 and 30, 1975, as North Vietnamese forces closed in on Saigon, U.S. Marine Corps pilots evacuated more than 7,000 from the capital.

The crew of a helicopter early in the war took the name as their call-sign, according to the Army. The Dustoffs extracted 900,000 wounded U.S., Vietnamese, and allied soldiers from May 1962 to ...