Vietnam Choppers (Revised Edition): Helicopters in Battle 1950-1975 (General Aviation)
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: August 20, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781841767963
Subjects: American history: Vietnam War; Asian history: Vietnam War; Military - Vietnam War; History; History - Military / War; History: American; The Americas; Vietnam; 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.