The Museum’s Huey served with four units in Vietnam between 1966 and 1970. Though now painted in National Guard livery, it retains an XM52 smoke generator similar to the one it carried for the ...

Take Me Home Huey tells the journey of a Medevac helicopter, nearly destroyed during the Vietnam ... from wounded war bird into vivid sculpture, viewers witness the power of art to heal surviving ...

RAAF 9 Squadron operated the Bell UH-1 throughout the Vietnam war after receiving the first batch - named HU-1 - in the early 1960s. For many pilots, training on the Huey had many risks ...

When the Smithsonian American Art Museum opens “Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1974,” the nation’s pre-eminent museum franchise will take its most sustained look at ...

By 1966, Hueys became the face of the war. The Huey was powered by a 1,400 ... it was not precisely state-of-the-art when it arrived in Vietnam in 1964. However, the Soviets upgraded it over ...

In 1971, during a six-month assignment in Vietnam ... purpose of the war. Today he says the country doesn’t know the extent of its impact. From the Army base at Hawk Hill, a Huey assigned ...

Harnett was aboard Huey helicopters in the Vietnam War as part of the 1st Cavalry Division, along with Russell Warriner, Art Jetter and Ivan Camp III. The Huey helicopter in the museum ...