October 13, 2007: Slick Pilots in the Vietnam War

The UH-1 Huey was the workhorse of the Vietnam War. The pilots who flew them were a grunt’s dream and an aircraft designer’s nightmare. From the DMZ to the Mekong Delta, these men and their machines performed missions from the mundane to the terrifying, night and day, fair weather and worse than foul. Most came home; many did not. Join us as we talk with some of those “Slick” pilots in the first of our series on the helicopter in warfare.