The Museum’s Huey served with four units in Vietnam between ... with gunships escorting troop carriers into enemy territory and clearing landing zones with rockets and machine-gun fire before ...

Because helicopters could reach remote areas inaccessible to towed guns, and a Huey with a howitzer onboard could theoretically deliver precise, high-impact strikes while hovering or landing ...

As a smoker, or smoke ship, it was the Huey’s responsibility to lay down a cloud of smoke to conceal troops being deployed or extracted from landing zones under heavy fire. Ponder and Palmer ...