Since the Vietnam War, MEDEVAC has drastically reduced battlefield mortality. Cutting the program would jeopardize this ...

Used primarily for medevac missions during the Korean War, the Sikorsky HO5S-1 was also an observation platform, artillery spotter and troop transport. Dane Penland. It began life ...

Since the Korean War, US soldiers have become accustomed to rapid "medevac" by purpose-built medical vehicles, ships, or aircraft. But recent US wars have been against opponents with vastly ...

Although the first aircraft used for medical evacuation was a British air ambulance, de Havilland DH9, in 1917, the first helicopter used for MedEvac was in World War II, said Baum.

Nonetheless, it appears that medical evacuation is becoming a much more hazardous proposition. Yet the modern Western way of war, especially in today's small wars, assumes the availability of medevac.

The Korean War broke out when a Soviet-backed, Communist North invaded the pro-American southern territory of the Korean Peninsula in 1950, leading to one of the most harrowing conflicts of the ...

The US expressed frustration Wednesday that North Korea is continuing to refuse to allow teams into the reclusive country to recover the remains of American casualties from the Korean War.