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.” ...

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.

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

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

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 ...

Vietnam hero Capt. Curtis Wayne Fitzgerald I, 77, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 4. Services for Fitzgerald, under the direction of Herrington/Land of Memory Funeral Home, are set for 1 p.m. Friday, Feb.

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 ...

While there a several different films and tv shows set around the Vietnam War, the 72 Films docuseries Vietnam: The War That Changed America on Apple TV+ uses archival footage and first-person voices ...

where he created the Vietnam-set series China Beach and wrote Cast Away, Planet of the Apes, The Polar Express, Jarhead and the AARP Movies for Grownups Award-winning World War II movie Flags of Our ...