WASHINGTON -- Nearly 5,000 helicopter pilots and crewmembers lost their lives conducting aerial operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. On Wednesday, a monument to those service ...

The Blue Ghost Cobra helicopter was erected in a Hawkins pond along Highway 14 in January. For Vietnam veteran Wayne Hlinicky of Oklahoma, seeing the helicopter was especially poignant. "I was the ...

More than 40,000 chopper pilots from all branches of service flew in Vietnam, a war often called “The Helicopter War.” More than 2,200 paid the ultimate price, dying in service to the nation.