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Unit Citation and Campaign Participation Credit Register,   Dept. of the Army,    29 Jan. 1988. 
Army Pamphlet 672-3.   To view this pamphlet click the link in blue.

 http://www.apd.army.mil/pdffiles/p672_3.pdf

68th Aviation Company awards listed on the main page are found on page 47 of this pamphlet.

 

Vietnam Helicopter Images and Artifacts http://www.vhpamuseum.org/   An On-line Museum of the Helicopter War in Southeast Asia.  To see the TT section click on Companies, and 68th AHC.

Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association (VHPA)  http://www.vhpa.org   Mission:  To enhance and accredit the cohesiveness, esprit de corps, and traditions of valor of rotary wing aircrews that flew in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam Era.  

Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association of Florida  http://www.vhpaf.org/index.htm   An Independent Chapter of the (VHPA).   One of the Board Members is our own Howard Smith who brought many of the chapters displays to our 2004 Reunion in Nashville in Sept. 2004.

145th Combat Aviation Battalion  http://www.145thcab.com   Old Warrior website
information on units and history of the 145th CAB.

1st Aviation Brigade  http://www.1stavnbde.com  This site is a portal to over 100 company sites of the Vietnam war 1st Aviation Brigade.

 

Hawk Magazine Repository - copies of the 1st Aviation Brigade unit magazine from 1967-1972.
   http://www.1stavnbde.com/Hawk/Hawk_index_visual.htm

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall Page http://thewall-usa.com/  look up our fallen comrades.   Gone but not Forgotten.

 

The
Wall

The Virtual Wall  http://www.thevirtualwall.org/view/view_index.htm  this page allows you to view each panel.  It may take a moment or two to learn how to move around the site easily, but it is a great site.  You can view an entire panel and all the names on that panel.  You can see where the name is on the panel and where to look when visiting the wall.    You can also look up remembrances as one of the menu items.  There are several photos and stories about WO Glenn Haukeness Jr.
 

 Voltaire Six : The Top Tigers -  John Cooke served as a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War.  He flew with the Top Tigers in 1967.  After leaving the Army he taught history with the University of Maryland (European Division), and then later at Brunswick Community College in Shallotte, North Carolina.    Click on the blue print Voltaire Six to view pages of his book...
 

The National Archives

 Request Copies of Military Personnel Records  - via the National Archives.  This is the online military personnel records request system.  Just click on the link and follow the instructions.     http://vetrecs.archives.gov/
 

Disabled American Veterans - DAV website click on blue print or logo to go to the DAV site.
 

Ray's Map Room  http://www.rjsmith.com/topo_map.html  Ray Smith has a large number of great maps of Vietnam, the cities, and battle zones.  Check out the detailed map of Bien Hoa Air Base http://www.rjsmith.com/bien-hoa-long-binh-complete-02.html .

 

The Vietnam Helicopter Flight Crew Network     http://www.vhfcn.org/  is a fraternity of aircrew members who served in Vietnam.

 

Information on rocket and mortar attacks at Bien Hoa Air Base.  The below document has a chart showing frequency of attacks, with date, rounds, etc.  The information is in a table found on pages 172 through pages 204.  This document may take some time to load, it is over 275 pages.
This document is a .pdf document.   It will take a short time to download to your computer.  It is a portion of a book titled, "Air Base Defense."
https://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/Publications/fulltext/air_base_defense_in_the_republic_of_vietnam.pdf
 
The T-28 Warbird Aerobatic Formation Demonstration Team website    
www.trojanhorsemen.com
Visit the site and view the T-28 owned and flown by our own Mustang Pilot - Walter Fricke


The Vietnam Era (Music & Songs)  178 of them  http://chu65nang67.us/nam/vietnam.html
    - This site welcomes you to the travel back in time. Music and songs still exist within our hearts and minds, saying so much about our times and experiences during the Vietnam Conflict

 

Veterans Airlift Command - Walter L. Fricke,  Chairman and CEO
At the VAC, a nonprofit organization, we consider it an honor to serve our wounded warriors and their families by arranging and providing free transport through a national network of donors, volunteer aircraft and pilots:
http://www.veteransairlift.org

 

  Combat Helicopter Pilots Association (CHPA)  www.chpa-us.org  Membership in CHPA is open to active duty, retired and veteran helicopter aircrew members from all branches of service and all wars in which the US used helicopters.
 

The Top 100 Vietnam Veterans Sites on the web -  http://www.topsitelists.com/start/vietnamvet/    This site welcomes you to visit and vote on the top Vietnam sites on the web.  

 

 Old Sarge  http://www.members.shaw.ca/america04  - This site was developed to give the public FREE patriotic and veteran graphics. 

 

68th Photo site Sgt Hueys Place  http://sgthuey.tripod.com/sgthueysplace/  

 

 162nd AHC - RVN 1965 - 1972 -


135th AHC website -  Bill Hysmith Webmaster  -  History, unit members, and photos of the 
"GET THE BLOODY JOB DONE"

 


 191st Assault Helicopter Company - Bill Janes Webmaster for the 191st AHC -
author of the poem "The Helicopter Pilot" and many more Vietnam poems which can be found
at the website http://www.iwvpa.net/janeswn/index.php
 


 Poems by Bud Parrish - including  "The Huey Pilot"  -  http://www.ptsdmanual.com/poetry/index.htm
 

 Great hardback book about the USO 175 pages lots of photos - about 15 pages of information and photos of celebrities who visited the troops in Vietnam.    I enjoy my copy and look at it often - webmaster. 
Always Home: 50 Years of the USO
- The Official Photographic History by Frank Coffey 

Welcome To Ron's World

Ron's World   this site no longer has information about the 68th  some information and photos about the 68th AHC.  The webmaster is Ron Wilson who was Mustang 5 during his tour in 1970.

 

  Gunners Australia  -  The home of all Gunners, past and present, in Australia     http://gunnersnet.com/gunners.html

 

 The Patriot Files  -     this site is dedicated to the preservation of military history.
http://www.patriotfiles.com/top/

 

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