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Operations - Cedar Falls & Junction City
"The helicopter was designed to fall out of the sky - if God
had intended for us grunts to fly - then the Army would had issued us
all wings!"
Unknown "grunt" with the Big Red One -
April 1967
at pick up point in Lai Khe.
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The Phu Loi Bone
Yard - The Grave Yard for Helicopters of the 11th CAB units
such as The 128th and 173rd Assault Helicopter Companies.
US HELICOPTER LOSS LIST 1962-73
US ARMY
Craft
Hostile
Operational
Type
Loss
Loss
AH-1
173 112
UH-1
1211 1379
OH-6
654
293
OH-13
74 100
OH-21
9
27
OH-23
31
64
OH-37
2
1
OH-47(a)
63
73
OH-54
1
8
OH-58
28 17
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Totals 2246 2075
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Helicopter
Pilot Casualties
These are pilot totals only and do not include
door gunners, crew chiefs or passengers. For every helicopter that
was shot down, or crashed, there were at lest two more crew members that
were exposed to the same dangers that killed the pilots.
Service KIA MIA Total
Army
1836
69 1905
Marines
198
5 203
Air
Force
39
2 41
Navy
30
0 30
Coast Guard
1
0
1
Air
America
1
0
1
Totals
2105
76 2181
The US Army had the bulk of the helicopter war
and the number of KIA and MIA show how much they gave to this
effort.
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