In my pro bono work as a lawyer, I’ve stumbled on a truly uplifting and too-little-known story—of the U.S. Army helicopter crews that evacuated some 900,000 people to safety and lifesaving care during the Vietnam War.
Each crew consisted of two pilots, a medic and a crew chief. The aeromedical evacuation crews operated under the radio call sign “Medevac” and, more colorfully, “Dustoff,” named for the dust kicked up during landing. Between May 1962 and March 1973, Dustoff crews evacuated sick and wounded members of U.S., Vietnamese and other allied forces, along with civilians and wounded enemy forces, in Southeast Asia.
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