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Friday, August 18, 2023

A Conversation with Darkhorse One Four- Doug Hicks

On June 15, 2023, I once again traveled to the American Honor Foundation Museum (AHF) at Jumbolair Aviation Estates in Ocala, Florida to interview one of America's combat veterans. Vietnam veteran Doug Hicks flew Hueys and Loaches in the 16th Air Cavalry in 1970/71. 

What made this reunion special is that AHF has OH-6A s/n 67-16435 in its collection. Hicks logged dozens of combat hours in this Loach and on this day, fifty years after he last saw this helicopter, he was reunited with it and flew it once again.
VIDEO HERE  (29:21 minutes)

OH-6A Walkaround  (13:50 minutes)

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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 18, 2023 at 6:48 PM

    If you are in Ocala, check out Don Garlits museum of drag racing. He's still going to work there, at, I believe, 93 years old.
    Some really nice history there.

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  2. VolksrobAugust 19, 2023 at 8:55 AM

    Vietnam. We in Aus. celebrated the fallen and wounded along with the 60,000 that served there. Yesterday,18th. August. Anniversary of the battle of Long Tan. Look it up.

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  3. AnonymousAugust 19, 2023 at 8:59 AM

    My Dad was a Crew Chief in the 116th ACH in Vietnam. I've been seeing a lot of these videos and it's nice to hear from others in his situation in the war. He passed in 2015 but we got him up in the air one more time before he passed. He loved flying.

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  4. FirebirdAugust 19, 2023 at 12:53 PM

    A very interesting story, I was with the 71st AHC Firebirds as a gunner, May 70-71 Chu Lai. Thank you for posting.

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