On Warriors' Wings

On Warriors’ Wings: Army Vietnam War Helicopters and the Native American They Were Named to Honor is the culmination of eight years of research, interviews, and study of the engineering evolution of rotary-wing aircraft, the Army’s experimentation with them beginning in the 1920s, and the eventual growth of their numbers Army-wide. So pervasive was the helicopter in the Second Indochina War that besides being called the Vietnam War, it is frequently referred to as America’s Helicopter War wherein 11,827 unique tail number U.S. helicopters were flown in-country during the war.