Stemmed from a Korean War era requirement for a medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) helicopter, the “Huey” family of helicopters saw action widely during the Vietnam War. In fact, the Huey is often ...

The UH-1 (Utility Helicopter) was first designated the HU-1, thereby receiving its nickname "Huey". It arrived in Vietnam in 1962. The MEDEVAC UH-1B model could carry up to three patients on a ...

Huey helicopters became the lifeline of the Vietnam War—and veteran John Lunn was right in the middle of it. Hear his gripping firsthand accounts of combat drops, medevac missions, and what it ...

The Huey’s mission—and every mission to rescue ... The documentary, with the working title Vietnam Medevac, is in production. We’re hoping to find a distributor soon so that people will ...

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.

were based out of South Vietnam. “The helicopter ambulance loss rate was one and a half times higher than non-medevac platforms,” said Scott Woodard, a historian from the Army Medical ...

The Huey's overall role in the Vietnam War started to morph, too. No longer just a medevac helicopter, some Hueys served as gunships with the addition of machine guns, rocket launchers ...

To honor those who flew more than 496,000 Army medevac missions from May ... veterans who had been wounded in Vietnam and told him, "When I heard the Huey coming, I knew I was going to be OK." ...

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 ...

A group of auto body students in New York State are refurbishing a piece of American history as they work on a Vietnam-era helicopter ... UH-1 Iroquois “Huey” helicopter.

Durbin reentered the military in 1983, and over the next 23 years, his service included the Army National Guard with Huey medevac during ... the NVA in the DMZ” in Vietnam.