[fastpat]

Originally posted by fastpat
With substantial emergency military aid from the US government, they rushed in the new TOW missile equipped UH-1M's. That effort stopped the North Vietnamese armor columns dead. So, you're in error.

Correction: They were UH-1B's, just as the stretched UH-1D became the UH-1H later with a more powerful engine.

Kissinger et al wanted a reescalation via military funding, the US congress said no, that is correct, which occured in 1975. The war was over, as far as Americans were concerned, and said as much to their congressmen. I was certainly happy about it. The south-Vietnamese government was being run by a corrupt war-lord by this time, who should have met the same fate as Diem. I think he lives in Southern California these days, occaisionally appearing on TV.

From Wikipedia,

UH-1s also flew hunter-killer teams with observation helicopters, namely the Bell OH-58A Kiowa and the Hughes OH-6 Cayuse (Loach).[verification needed] Towards the end of the conflict, the UH-1 was tested with TOW missiles, and two UH-1B helicopters equipped with the XM26 Armament Subsystem were deployed to help counter the 1972 Easter Invasion.