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.

Larry Taylor on Tuesday, honoring the Army pilot who risked his life ... of combat missions in UH-1 and Cobra helicopters during a year's deployment in Vietnam and, "We never lost a man." ...

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 ...

As a Huey helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War ... long tribute to western Montanans who served in the Vietnam War, leading up to Veterans Day. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Recently, a group of Vietnam War veterans were finally recognized for their heroic efforts, and that includes a helicopter pilot from Benbrook, Texas. The long-time veteran helicopter pilot's ...