Not every military helicopter has the best safety record, but they're still flown and kept in service sometimes.
Army Pfc. Kenneth J. David drew enemy fire to save the wounded. Capt. Hugh R. Nelson Jr. was killed while using his body to ...
A U.S. Army helicopter pilot from Rocky Mount who lost his life more than 58 years ago during the Vietnam War was ...
Charleston army helicopter pilot Capt. Hugh Reavis Nelson Jr., a Citadel graduate, joins more than 3,520 recipients of nation ...
An Army captain who grew up in North Carolina and died while saving three fellow soldiers in a downed helicopter in Vietnam ...
Captain Hugh Reavis Nelson, a 1959 graduate of The Citadel, was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor on ...
President Biden has awarded the highest military decoration in the nation to seven U.S. Army veterans for their heroism in ...
He became an Army helicopter pilot and served in Taiwan for three years before being sent to Vietnam on Jan. 2, 1966, according to the Army. The day he died, June 5, 1966, Nelson was commanding a ...