WASHINGTON (WCBD) – A Citadel graduate who was killed in action while saving his crew members during the Vietnam War posthumously received the ... Nelson was commanding an armed Huey helicopter for a ...

Nelson, of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, then 28 years old, was serving as the pilot and aircraft commander of a UH-1 Iroquois ("Huey") helicopter, although the initial citation for his award of ...

David was one of seven soldiers on Friday who served in the wars in Vietnam and Korea to receive ... Nelson was the acting aircraft commander of a Huey helicopter with the 114th Aviation Company ...

The year was 1966, and for several years the Soldiers in Vietnam had been using the same howitzer that their fathers had used in World War ... Huey and the door gun positions on other helicopters ...

Army Pfc. Kenneth J. David drew enemy fire to save the wounded. Capt. Hugh R. Nelson Jr. was killed while using his body to ...

During a battle June 5, 1966, in the middle of the Vietnam War, Nelson commanded a UH-1N Huey helicopter flying near Moc Hoa, Republic of Vietnam. Enemy fire forced the crew to attempt to bring ...

The rest of the country will now, too, as Nelson and Kenneth David, who also fought in the Vietnam War, are the latest ... acting aircraft commander of a Huey helicopter with the 114th Aviation ...

President Joe Biden honored the sacrifices of those seven soldiers from the Korean and Vietnam Wars in a White House ceremony ...

Capt. Hugh R. Nelson Jr., who served in the Vietnam War, was the commander of a Huey helicopter conducting a search-and-destroy reconnaissance mission in June 1966 when it was struck by a large ...

After he was wounded, David stayed in the fight, drawing enemy fire away ... as aircraft commander of an armed Huey helicopter during the Vietnam War in June 1966 when his helicopter was shot ...