The CH-47 Chinook is regarded by many as the world's most iconic helicopter. Dating all the way back to the Vietnam War, the ...

Following the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia is engulfed in a gigantic civil war. Lenin and the Reds hope to forge a new Soviet ...

Army Pfc. Kenneth J. David drew enemy fire to save the wounded. Capt. Hugh R. Nelson Jr. was killed while using his body to ...

Some helicopters end up having a higher than normal crash rate. It's not uncommon ... when it served in the Vietnam War. Since then, Sikorsky has produced through the CH-53E Super Stallion.

Correspondent Sean Whelan reports that given where the Washington DC air crash happened, the involvement of the military, the ...

President Joe Biden will honor extraordinary acts of bravery on Friday in one of his final opportunities to formally ...

WASHINGTON (WCBD) – A Citadel graduate who was killed in action while saving his crew members during the Vietnam War posthumously ... commanding an armed Huey helicopter for a search-and-destroy ...

was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor on Friday for his heroic actions during the Vietnam War, according to school officials. Captain Nelson, an Army helicopter pilot ...

An Army captain who grew up in North Carolina and died while saving three fellow soldiers in a downed helicopter in Vietnam ... in either the Korean War or the Vietnam War. Richard Stradling ...

Fort Hood was renamed in honor of him on May 9, 2023. After an armed helicopter crashed during the Vietnam War on June 5, 1966, Army Capt. Hugh R. Nelson Jr. from Rocky Mount, North Carolina ...

WASHINGTON — One soldier from North Carolina, shielding a wounded comrade he'd pulled from a downed helicopter in Vietnam ... on the same panel of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington ...