Jay Hawk 79: A Vietnam War Memoir of A Door Gunner and Huey Crew Chief

Jim Wagner recounts his experiences as a Huey crew chief in Vietnam, flying combat and support missions during the war.

At the start of 1967, Jim Wagner shipped out to Vietnam. As a UH-1D Huey crew chief and door gunner, Wagner was part of the 9th Aviation Battalion that would ferry infantry of the 9th Infantry Division into and out of combat in III Corps Tactical Zone in the Mekong Delta in South Vietnam. Interdicting the movements of Viet Cong kept Wagner and his unit in near constant comb...