CIVILIAN HELICOPTER UNITSīulldogs, Rebel Guns, Longhorns, Danger Hawksġst Infantry Division A – C Troop 1/4 th – Armored Cav Squadron / Troopįourth Infantry Division Aviation – The Ivy Division I am aware that many of the units mentioned herein had multiple call signs and nose art – I’m just limited to the available space I can’t show them all in this format.
Also, I invite you to get back to me on any missing units, call signs or duplicates. If I’ve erred on the chart below, please let me know so I can make corrections. I’ll leave a link at the end of this article in the event you want to check it out. I did post another article on this website a while ago that includes hundreds of photos of nose art used by these crews in-county. Where it is known, I’ve indicated their unit name / call sign, and a sample of nose art or unit patch for those units. The chart below is not all inclusive but includes most of the helicopter units that served during the Vietnam War. Large groups of soldiers could be air-lifted into a battle and then be withdrawn after a few hours and flown to another area to reinforce other units or to engage the enemy again in a different portion of the country. This is also the main reason that soldiers in Vietnam saw more action than those soldiers of preceding wars. Cobra helicopters totaled 1,110,716 flight hours in Vietnam. Without helicopters, it would have taken three times as many troops to secure the 800 mile border with Cambodia and Laos (the politicians thought the Geneva Conventions of 1954 and the Geneva Accords of 1962 would secure the border).Īrmy Huey’s totaled 9,713,762 flight hours in Vietnam between October 1966 and the end of American involvement in early 1973. The helicopter provided unprecedented mobility. The average lapse between being wounded and reaching a hospital was less than one hour, and as a result, less than one percent of those wounded died of their wounds within the first 24 hours. MEDEVAC helicopters flew nearly 500,000 missions, airlifting 900,000 patients (nearly one-half were Americans).
75,000 Vietnam Veterans are severely disabled. Although the percent of dead is similar to other wars, amputations or crippling wounds were 300% higher than in World War II. As a result, 58,169 were killed and 304,000 wounded out of 2.29 million who served. One out of every ten Americans who served in Vietnam became a casualty. Photo above from 7/15/66 shows the crash that killed two men from the Fulton/Montgomery County area of upstate New York just west of Albany, SGT Robert R.
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