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The Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division is a divisional aviation brigade of the United States Army. It was activated on 16 September 1984.
On March 30, 1972, North Vietnam began a massive of invasion of South Vietnam with a modernized force of 150,000 troops equipped with modern Soviet and Chinese tanks, mechanized vehicles, artillery, surface-to-air mis-siles (SAMs), and masses of anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) guns. The SAM forces included the large SA-2 missiles
We have extensive holdings of Vietnam War related materials, and currently have over 900,000 individual items (totaling 10 million pages) digitized and available for online research, including some unit records and a full set of U.S. Army 1:50000 maps.
Unit records for F Troop, 8th Cavalry can be found among the series Cavalry Unit Records, 1965 - 1973 and are kept within the Records of United States Forces in Southeast Asia, 1950-1975 (Record Group 472). We did locate an after action report for April 5, 1970.
air cavalry, airmobile helicopter formations widely used by the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War (1954–75) to locate and assault enemy ground forces and transport U.S. troops into battle. The Vietnam War saw the first large-scale use of helicopters in a combat role.
most significant fixed-wing aircraft in the Army's inventory in South Vietnam, the twin-engine CV-2 Caribou transport. It served the Army well, with a short-field landing and takeoff capability that made it highly suitable for Vietnam. In April 1966, however, the Army relinquished it to the U.S. Air Force as part
The United States waged a strategic bombing campaign against North Vietnam designed to pressure Hanoi into with-drawing its support for the Viet Cong, but Operation Rolling Thunder had yet to...
