The door gunner in a UH-1B Huey gunship fires on Vietcong positions during a search-and-destroy mission in the Mekong Delta, January 23, 1968.Bettmann/Getty Images US commandos fought a covert war in ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — They consider their reunions therapy. “We all have post-traumatic stress—and we talk about war. So ironic, isn’t it…” Jim Pfister was a private and a door gunner on a UH-1 Huey ...

Marvis “Adam” Dobbs ran his hand across the floor of the helicopter in a slow circle before slapping the metal with his palm and climbing aboard. It was the first time since 1970 that he had taken the ...

U.S. Army Huey helicopter #174 has been transformed into an art installation. — -- On Feb. 14, 1969, U.S. Army Huey helicopter #174 was gunned down while on a medical rescue mission in Vietnam, ...

Few sounds in the world of aircraft are more iconic than the whomp, whomp, whomp of the Huey helicopter blades. It’s also the sound of the “bird” most identified with the Vietnam War. Now, the Vietnam ...

When a radio call came in, Donald G. Albright knew it was time to hold on. Flying at 1,500 to 2,000 feet at night, he readied his M-60 machine gun pointed out the open side of the Bell UH-1 “Huey” ...

Dennis Louth was in combat near Pleiku, South Vietnam, for 48 consecutive days in 1967, but one day stands out. That was the day the gunner had to fly a Huey helicopter back to its base under fire ...

During the Vietnam War, existence could come down to a single factor. If the Huey helicopters come, you live. If they don’t, you die. In countless nightmarish situations the sound of one’s salvation ...