We’re going in.” At dawn on July 23, 1970, operations began to evacuate Fire Support Base Ripcord, in the A Shau Valley of Vietnam. Fourteen Chinook helicopters with the capacity to transport over 30 ...
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 ...
About 53 years after the helicopter he was piloting crashed during bad weather off the coast of Nha Trang during the Vietnam War, the remains of Teaneck native U.S. Army Warrant Officer Albert R.
The Vietnam War came to an end on April 30, 1975, when North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. The fall of the city marked the end of the South Vietnamese government and ...
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The Chinook is America’s Greatest Helicopter
Developed by the now-defunct Vertol Aircraft Corporation (now part of Boeing), the CH-47 Chinook was designed in response to ...
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