The Huey in Vietnam: Bell’s UH-1 at War (Legends of Warfare: Aviation, 45)

Great book on hueys

I was an air traffic controller in the Vietnam War ,the Huey was a real work horse,a first class helicopter,one to never be forgotten.

We bought it for our neighbor, a Vietnam vet who flew UH-1s in Vietnam and he said it the book is wonderful.

This book has everything I needed for references to build a Huey as a Father’s Day gift. Awesome photos and information.

Although I've only been "into" Schiffer's "Legends of Warfare" series for about a year now, they're already starting to feel like an old friend. I suppose there's something wonderfully familiar about a book series that sticks to a format and (generally) does it well.While it retains the tried and true "LOW" format, what sets this entry apart is how gritty and immediate much of the imagery is, as opposed to the somewhat detached tone of most of the series. The first chapter, "Evolution," offers up a grab bag of photographs of historic photographs of some of the UH-1 variants which served in the Vietnam War, along with a number of color walk-around views of restored and museum Hueys. The highlight is the "In Vietnam" chapter, whose imagery does a superb job capturing just how grainy, dismal, and washed-out the color photography of the time was. Under most circumstances, I'd criticize this book for poor photo quality, but many of the images are so evocative of their time and place it seems unfair to complain. We see a variety of the different missions the UH-1 engaged in during the war (troop transport, medevac, fire support, resupply, special forces insertion, etc.), with fairly detailed captions describing the circumstances under which each photograph was taken.At 112 pages in length, and with just under 180 illustrations, this book doesn't attempt to cover absolutely EVERYTHING Hueys did in Vietnam, or every specialized variant of the helicopter. If anything, it's perhaps a little bit stingy, and 128 or even 144 pages might have been more appropriate to cover a subject of this scope. Still, it makes a fine introduction to the subject, and as I've mentioned earlier, the photography, in all its grungy gloominess, is excellent.

Book does not give adequate coverage to the units that did 95% of missions preformed, all the units covered did a great job however they were not the core aviation units.My review comes from 24 months in country with 3 combat helicopter units