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 ...

Helicopters are typically not known as discreet machines. Their roaring turbine exhaust, whining overhead blades, and buzzing tail rotors can usually be heard from miles away. Yet, at the height of ...

The Lady Bell, a Vietnam War-era UH-1B Iroquois “Huey” helicopter, has been perched on a pedestal at the southwest corner at the Vancouver VA Medical Center campus since 2008 as a tribute to military ...

PORTAGE, MI — A powerful moment of nostalgia struck Kalamazoo resident Bob Short while boarding an aircraft that defined his experience in the Vietnam War. The Air Zoo partnered with the Michigan ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — In April 1975, as the North Vietnamese closed in on Saigon, Americans and their allies rushed to evacuate the city. Amid the chaos, the images of U.S. soldiers tossing perfectly ...

At 7:53 a.m. on Wednesday, April 30, 1975, a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter ascended from the rooftop of the United States embassy in downtown Saigon carrying ten Marine Security Guards toward the ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- There was a powerful sight and sound over San Jose Wednesday. A Vietnam war-era Huey helicopter, fully restored by veterans, flew above city hall, marking 50 years since the ...

Jerry Smith is shown beside a life preserver on a naval ship where he performed maintenance on helicopters in Vietnam in 1967. (Photo provided by Housecalls Hospice) PARKERSBURG — Jerry Smith was born ...

American airpower was supposed to be untouchable in Vietnam. Instead, U.S. pilots found themselves struggling against smaller ...

About two dozen Vietnam veterans joined Irvine dignitaries and others Tuesday at Hangar 297 at the Great Park, the future home of the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum, to commemorate the 50th ...