Jerry Smith is shown beside a life preserver on a naval ship where he performed maintenance on helicopters in Vietnam in 1967. (Photo provided by Housecalls Hospice) PARKERSBURG — Jerry Smith was born ...

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 ...

With its unusual intermeshing rotors and no tail rotor, the Kaman HH-43 Huskie hardly looked like a combat aircraft, yet it ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- There was a powerful sight and sound over San Jose Wednesday. A Vietnam war-era Huey helicopter, fully restored by veterans, flew above city hall, marking 50 years since the ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The very visible reminder of the Vietnam War in Santa Barbara, a Huey helicopter, is now gone after about 30 years. The local Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) Chapter 218 ...

The full letter, which is widely available these days, ran to about 2,000 words worth of evidence that “something very black indeed” had happened. Further publicity came in the form of an ...

FORT RUCKER, Ala. — On Sept. 10, hundreds gathered at Veterans Memorial Park to dedicate the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association Memorial Monument, honoring the thousands of aviators and crew ...

Originally designed in the late 1940s as a lightweight liaison aircraft for short-field operations, the Cessna O-1 Bird Dog ...

How could America lose the Vietnam War? Even now, 50 years after the last American helicopters left Saigon, the answer is elusive. Despite pouring immense resources into Vietnam — including nearly 3 ...

American airpower was supposed to be untouchable in Vietnam. Instead, U.S. pilots found themselves struggling against smaller, more agile MiGs and losing more often than anyone expected. The decline ...

Vietnam was a war where technology clashed with terrain, and the weapons carried into the jungle typically determined the outcome of an entire fight American units relied on rifles, helicopters, tanks ...