The VHPA Newsletter
Newsletter Item Number: 300Newsletter610778
- Pages
- 24
- Media Type
- Newsletter
- Information removed from digital copy?
- Yes
- Physical Location
- Copyright Statement
- ©Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association. All rights reserved.
- Language(s)
- English
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 5
The VHPA Newsletter (Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association (VHPA)) - Newsletter
- Publication
- The VHPA Newsletter
- Publisher/Org.
- Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association (VHPA)
- Country
- United States
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Type
- Newsletter
- General Note
- [1984-2004] Later Title: The VHPA Aviator
Dates
Publication: September/October 2000- General Note
- FROM THE PRESIDENT BY Charles Holley
New membership contest begins BY Don Joyce
New program manager at VHPA headquarters
LETTERS:
Poem describes death of veteran FROM Ty Simmons
WOCs oblivious to events of 1968 FROM Les Davison
Washington parade event to remember FROM John M. Kazlauskas
WOC Rock information wanted FROM Lou "Rocket" Rochat
Washing reunion - from wives corner FROM Rebeca Mizejewski
VHPA professor seeks pilots for panel session FROM Thomas Morrissey
Poem stems from pilots' longstanding rivalry FROM Preston "Skip" Shreve
NTSB file describes two planes colliding FROM Nick J. Primis
Pilot saves wounded company commander FROM Beverly C. "John" Read
VC attack hueys, pilots on Nha Trang airstrip FROM Jack Serig Sr.
TAPS:
Selba Khomer Beaty Sr. - Lynn A. Carpenter - Joseph E. Gunnels - Charles W. "Buzz" Hair III - Oscar Maxey "Max" Hall - Francis John Hnatiuk - Kent Reinhard - John A. Robinson Jr. - Herbert Thorpe Sink - Charles I. "Irling" Smith
REPORTS:
VHPA history burned on new CD BY Gary Roush
Helicopter units north of Da Nang BY Mike Sloniker
Reflection on a war many years ago BY Dr. James R. Reckner
Las Vegas will host VHPA 2002 reunion
Young's book does the impossible BY Thomas Payne
REUNION:
Registration form in next newsletter BY Mike Law
What to do in Denver with or without car BY Mike Law
Take a day trip to Colorado Springs
Follow reunion hotel reservation procedures BY Joe Bilitzke
FEATURES:
Pilot flies 'insertions,' 'extractions' BY Bob Johnson
VHPA on parade
- Perma Link
- https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=300Newsletter610778
- Citation
- The VHPA Newsletter, 300Newsletter610778. No Date, Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association (VHPA) Collection: VHPA Newsletters, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=300Newsletter610778, Accessed 06 Dec 2025.
- Pub Credit Line
- 300Newsletter610778, Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association (VHPA) Collection: VHPA Newsletters, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University
- Added: 31 Mar 2017 [Updated: 29 Aug 2017]
Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive
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