The Huey & me.

[Carl Robinson]

I'm sure we've each got our own personal memories of the ubiquitous Huey -- UH-1 helicopter -- from our Vietnam Days and mine go way back to when the chopper first arrived in-country in mid-1964, 60 years ago now.   That first flight down to Go Cong with USOM is on the cover of my The Bite of the Lotus, an intimate memoir of the Vietnam War (2020).

And in my retirement life south of Sydney, that love affair has been rekindled with the HARS Aviation Museum's former Royal Australian Navy (RAN) UH-1B on which I've gone up several times.  But nothing like this one on ANZAC Day (25 April), something I helped arrange as a volunteer at the Museum and my involvement with the Vietnam Veterans of the Shoalhaven Region further south and where we lived for a few years at the turn of the century (1998-2003).  I shot video from the Huey while my mates Tim May and Howard Mitchell shot video & photos respectively from the Caribou.  A true Sound Track of Vietnam for the marching veterans below.  

(34) EP 40 :HARS RAN Iroquois 898 Huey Anzac Day Shoalhaven Flypast - Lest We Forget - YouTube.  

Enjoy the ride.

Best regards,

Carl