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UH-1H IROQUOIS ‘HUEY’

The unique sound of the rotor
blades led American Vietnam
veterans to describe the Huey
as the ‘sound of our war’

SERVICE IN OTHER COUNTRIES USA and were heavily engaged in combat.
Only 34 survived the war. The Argentinean
Although the Huey is thought of as a Army used nine Hueys against the British
quintessentially American helicopter, it has during the Falklands War, and, in the 2007
been used on active service by many other Lebanon con ict, the Lebanese Army modi ed
countries in different con icts. During the several UH-1Hs to carry 227 kilograms of high
Salvadoran Civil War (1979-92), the El Salvador explosives, which they then used to strike
Air Force received over 100 Hueys from the Islamist militant positions.

An armed Huey named ‘Death
from above’ lands in an
unidenti ed village in central El
Salvador in 1984

“THE ARGENTINEAN ARMY

USED NINE HUEYS AGAINST
THE BRITISH DURING THE

FALKLANDS WAR”

This UH-1H Iroquois Huey is housed in the
fully refurbished and reopened American Air
Museum at the Imperial War Museum Duxford
in Cambridgeshire. Images: Alamy, Getty
For more details visit: www.iwm.org.uk/
visits/iwm-duxford

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