Bong Son, Vietnam, Feb. 2, 1966: Ground crewmen prepare to refuel a Scout H-13 helicopter during the 1st Air Cavalry Division’s participation in Operation White Wing. Flying “low and slow ...

Developer Digital Reality has tackled the challenge of re-creating the look and feel of the motion picture in its upcoming 3D tactical game, Platoon: The 1st Airborne Cavalry Division in Vietnam.

Gregory, a native of the Mexico, Missouri, area, served with the 1st Air Cavalry Division during the Vietnam War. Courtesy of Melvin Gregory Melvin Gregory is a student of Vietnam War history.

a joint U.S. and South Vietnamese push by 30,000 men “led by the 1st Air Cavalry Division to lift the siege of Khe Sanh. While an armored column rumbled along Route 9, a slender but strategic ...

The Vietnam War saw the first tests of the Army’s air cavalry concept with the 1965 deployment of the experimental 1st Squadron, 9th Air Cavalry. By the war’s end, five squadrons would serve ...