Vet Willis Teel Got A View Of Vietnam From A Helicopter Doorway

Alabama News Center | November 8, 2017 @ 5:00 am

By Carla Davis

When Willis Teel got orders he was being deployed to Vietnam, his response was, “Where is that?”

Teel, who was a helicopter power train repairman in the aviation division of the U.S. Army, landed in Vietnam in 1963, when few Americans realized that half a world away an Asian country was being torn apart from within by war. His unit was only the second U.S. Huey helicopter company sent to the region.Teel said although his unit’s mission was to transport South Vietnamese soldiers to the front lines, he was part of the maintenance detachment, which was responsible for keeping the helicopters in the air.

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