Specifically, the sounds of helicopters. Stemmed from a Korean War era requirement for a medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) helicopter, the “Huey” family of helicopters saw action widely during the ...

The Huey’s mission—and every mission to rescue ... The casualty count proved it: 470 medevac pilots and copilots killed or wounded, plus 666 other crew members killed or wounded, most by ...

Fortunately, the “howitzer Huey” never materialized ... the Korean War out of the need to rapidly transport supplies and medevac wounded personnel in the dense, hard-to-reach terrain of ...

A VIETNAM ERA HUEY HELICOPTER IS OFFERING RIDES AND HISTORY ... THE ONE WAS USED FOR COMMAND AND CONTROL, TROOP TRANSPORT, RESUPPLY AND MEDEVAC, EMERGENCY MEDICAL EVACUATION.

Medal of Honor Recipient and Huey pilot General Patrick Brady speaks ... “Every soldier that got on a medevac aircraft, 95 percent of them survived.” The helicopter had a long journey to ...

“The helicopter ambulance loss rate was one and a half times higher than non-medevac platforms,” said ... Their primary air ambulance was the UH-1 Huey helicopter. The Dustoff crews would ...

he was assigned as a medevac pilot with the 326th Medical Battalion of the 101st Airborne Division in South Vietnam. He flew UH-1 Huey medevac choppers during 500 missions out of camps Eagle and ...

The Huey Helicopter that has been on display at ... completed application with the U.S. Army and was given the historic medevac helicopter. Mr. Hobbs said, “The chapter had to agree to maintain ...

To honor those who flew more than 496,000 Army medevac missions from May 1962 through ... in January 1969 when he had to put the UH-1 Huey into a hover while under fire. "It was a hoist off ...