Rabu, 12 April 2017

The Helicopter War and Its Effect on Crews Who Fought It

“I love the smell of napalm in the morning,” Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore (Robert Duvall) commander of the fictional 1st Battalion, 9th Air Cavalry Regiment, famously remarks in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film Apocalypse Now, and that visually stunning scene has become for most Americans the iconic image of Vietnam War helicopter combat. Those of …

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