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 ...
MINERAL WELLS, TX (FOX 44) — Let’s step back in time to Fort Wolters, the launchpad where over 40,000 helicopter pilots learned to fly during the Vietnam War. One of the pilots who trained there, and ...
You might hear sounds from the past over the Kansas City metro this week.A Vietnam-era Bell UH-1 helicopter, better known by its nickname, Huey, is offering rides and history lessons to the public in ...
By then, he had flown over 3,000 casualties to safety during 11 months evacuating wounded soldiers from Vietnam's most ...
On a mild, picture-perfect autumn morning in west Little Rock, a Huey helicopter's skids cleared the ground, and she slowly rose skyward. Bystanders stood in rapt attention to see the massive rotors ...
ST. PAUL (WCCO) -- Remember putting together Lego cars, castles and more? Some local war veterans have their own project like that, but on a much bigger scale. They're actually taking taken dozens of ...
Gross joined the army in November 1968 at age 18 to fly helicopters, believing the Vietnam War would be over by the time he completed his flight training. It wasn't. He put in a year in the war zone, ...
A smile crossed the lips of many a Marine in Vietnam who heard the code word “Scarface.” They knew hovering overhead was a Cobra attack helicopter ready to strike at the enemy. “Everything we did was ...