Let’s take a closer look at the fixed-wing, and rotary-wing, aircraft in Coppola’s masterpiece. The most prominently featured aircraft in Apocalypse Now is the Bell UH-1 Iroquois, known as the “Huey.” ...

Throughout the history of aviation, certain designs have emerged which have become icons within popular culture. One such ...

Beginning on April 29, 1975, Armed Forces Radio jarringly blasted the Christmas song throughout the bombarded city as ...

A centerpiece to the main drive through Okeechobee is missing. The helicopter at Veterans Park on Northwest Park Street is being renovated back to its former glory.

It has been nearly 50 years since Hutchinson native Lyle E. Mackedanz disappeared in Vietnam. While serving with the 17th Assault Helicopter Battalion, 16th Aviation Group, 1st Aviation Brigade as ...

Mike Benge was a guest at the dedication ceremony for the Huey helicopter in Veterans Memorial Park of McLeod County last Saturday. His story is told in the book, “No ...

The Australian SAS worked closely with the Huey crews. 9 Squadron soon became essential, with their ability to insert and extract SAS patrols, either over the jungle or on the ground. This was often ...

A subgroup of 729 still living veterans deployed to Vietnam, drawn from a broader sample of 12,400 men who served in the U.S. Armed Forces during the Vietnam War, were surveyed over three data ...

AND DEFENDING COMRADES DURING THE WAR. AS WJCL 22 NEWS' LYDIA BLACKSTONE REPORTS ... duo’s friendship began more than 20 years ago when a documentary titled In the Shadow of The Blade brought Vietnam ...

Vietnam hero Capt. Curtis Wayne Fitzgerald I, 77, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 4. Services for Fitzgerald, under the direction ...

Operation Linebacker I was the venue by which both the USN and USAF produced their first aces (five or more enemy aircraft destroyed in air-to-air combat) of the Vietnam War: ...