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Reds Find Navy Huey a Tough Old Bird
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No Losses to Ground Fire Since December Story & Photo by SPEC. 4 Dan Evans S&S Staff Correspondent from Stars & Stripes, June 1970 CA MAU, Vietnam — Talk about helicopter gunships and most GI’s are likely to conjure up a vision of a sleek AH1G Cobra. But South Vietnamese soldiers and US Advisors in the Delta are apt to think of a lumbering UH1 “Huey” so loaded with guns and rockets that it can barely pull a respectable hover. Helicopter Attack (Light) Squadron 3, the US Navy’s only helo attack squadron, flies the oldest gunships in Vietnam, but not …