There’s no way that we could have fought that war without it.” Gaining the High Ground with the Huey “It was a big raggedy thing but it took you here and there. “The Huey was our best friend,” says Freddie Clark, who fought in the legendary 1/9 “Walking Dead” Marine unit in Vietnam. In the eyes of the average 19-year-old ground soldier in Vietnam, the Huey represented nothing less than divine intervention.
To the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army, they were angels of death.įor those who flew on it or actually flew it, the Hueys is embedded in their souls. To American troops who were exposed to constant enemy fire, the Huey and those who flew them were angels from on high. Fifty years after its birth, the Huey remains the only aircraft to be used by all branches of the United States military, including the Coast Guard.
As an icon of the Vietnam War and an angel of mercy for American troops who fought there, the Bell UH-1 Iroquois, affectionately known as the “Huey,” has gone on to become the most recognizable helicopter in the world.
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