For many of the veterans, it marked a return to Hunter Army Airfield where they learned to fly the Apache’s predecessor, the AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter before shipping off to Vietnam.

We knew better,” he recalled. Hamilton is part of fewer than 2% of black military combat helicopter pilots who served in Vietnam. “The Tuskegee Airmen, there were approximately 1,000 pilots.

About two dozen Vietnam ... these veterans did. Families like mine could never repay them.” On April 29 and 30, 1975, as North Vietnamese forces closed in on Saigon, U.S. Marine Corps pilots ...

Fields, also a Vietnam War veteran, has been a volunteer at the ... Such devotion was costly, and of the 52 helicopter pilots in Barrett’s medevac unit, nearly half were killed or wounded ...

An intimate crowd of veterans, their families and community members gathered at Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and ...

Himself a veteran of World War ... once that the sole reason he went to Vietnam was to return home a decorated hero.” Timberlake was the pilot of the helicopter that picked up Trezona after ...

Soledad National Veterans Memorial to honor the heroism of Vietnam veteran ... Sandy Clark along with a helicopter flyover. The plaque says that Lassen, the pilot and aircraft commander of a ...

(WJHL) — Helicopters are synonymous with military operations today. If it weren’t for the Vietnam War ... anybody that wants to fly, we need pilots bad,'” said Master Army Aviator Thomas ...

Families, veterans and community leaders gathered in the courthouse square this morning to reflect those who died in military ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — A Memorial Day event at the Capitol on Monday paid tribute to the service members who gave the ultimate sacrifice. It also remembered the end of the Vietnam War 50 years ago.

A group of auto body students in New York State are refurbishing a piece of American history as they work on a Vietnam-era helicopter whose pilot was ... display at the new Veterans Memorial ...