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 ...
Sep. 17—FAIRMONT — One night in 1970, Lucky Strike went down. Lucky Strike was a Bell UH-1 Huey, assigned to fly perimeter defense and hunt hostile Vietcong activity in the Mekong River Delta region ...
Fifty years later, the surreal images of U.S. sailors and Marines scrambling to push, drag and muscle helicopters overboard into the sea in 1975 remain emblematic of America's long and ultimately ...
The Vietnam War came to an end on April 30, 1975, when North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. The fall of the city marked the end of the South Vietnamese government and ...
Photo courtesy of Bob Ford | Special to News-Press NOW A Vietnam-era Cobra helicopter is shown on display at the Kansas National Guard Museum in Topeka, Kansas. Photo courtesy of Bob Ford | Special to ...