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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...