Vietnam Choppers
Subtitle: Helicopters in Battle 1950-1975 (General Aviation)
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: January 25, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780850455724
Subjects: Aircraft: general interest; Military Aircraft; History - Military / War; History: World; Military - Vietnam War; History / Military / Vietnam War
First sentence: After many years of experimentation the concept of rotary-wing flight, originally documented by Leonardo da Vinci, was finally realized during the 1930s; but it was not until the closing months of World War 2 that the helicopter was actually utilized for military purposes, with the deployment of the Sikorsky R-4 to the 1st Air Commando in the Far East for casualty evacuation and the retrieval of airmen shot down behind enemy lines.