Jump to content

Vietnam Helicopters


Rotorwash
 Share

Recommended Posts

To be honest - I don't know. It's been almost 40 years since I saw a 1 Cav Div SOP; and that was my verbage, trying to describe the D Co recognition device.

 

Soooo..... I consulted the dictionary:

 

Diamond - Any rhombus shaped figure with its diagonals oriented vertically and horizontally.

 

Rhombus - Any equilateral parallelogram, EXCEPT a square.

 

Hmmmm. I defer to you. ;)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

To be honest - I don't know. It's been almost 40 years since I saw a 1 Cav Div SOP; and that was my verbage, trying to describe the D Co recognition device.

 

Soooo..... I consulted the dictionary:

 

Diamond - Any rhombus shaped figure with its diagonals oriented vertically and horizontally.

 

Rhombus - Any equilateral parallelogram, EXCEPT a square.

 

Hmmmm. I defer to you. ;)

 

CaptCav,

 

Sounds like a square on its point is better description to me. Geez, I never thought high school geometry would come back to haunt me 20 years later! w00t.gif

 

Ray

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Cobrahistorian

CaptCav,

 

Didn't 7/17th go to the geometric designators late in the war? I've got some shots of C/7/17th birds with small, solid yellow designators like 1st Cav, circa 1971.

 

Jon

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 1 month later...
  • 1 month later...
snake36bravo
Guys:

 

These appear to me to be all post-Viet Nam AH-1 photos but I figured that the rotary wing nuts here would enjoy seeing them anyway. I ran across them on this site: http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?t=120243

 

Regards,

Charlie Flick

 

I have a named SPH4 from 244th AVN mentioned in the accident and I just purchased this off Ebay. Mentions the units involved as well as the U Minh forest where the crash took place. Interesting to find all this all in just one night.

post-2582-1250326310.jpg

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 9 months later...
ripeold f*rt
UH-1D/H slicks- Blue

 

AH-1 and i think UH-1B/C gunships- Red

 

OH-6 and OH-58- White

 

Red+White= Pink Team

 

Red+Blue= Purple team

 

I hope that helps.

Ray

 

Jon will be along shortly to correct me if I made any mistakes. He's the Vietnam gunship guru after all.

 

Team colors were first used by the 1/9 Cav. In April of 67 we worked with B/1/9 at Duc Pho and that is the first I heard of them. White teams then were flying H-13's, red teams were the gunships and the blues were not the slicks but the aerorifle platoon, each squad had its own D model. Pink teams were an H-13 and a gunship.

 

RFO

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 3 weeks later...

post-8785-1277477898.jpg

 

what a great thread. Just in time. We got our UH-1 delivered and we are starting to deliberate on the paint scheme.

It served with the 101st, but we really want a "pop". Thanks for all the info and more importantly, thanks to the guys who went and did!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share

×
×
  • Create New...