The Army proposed to mount a 105 mm artillery gun on the chassis of a UH-1 Iroquois Huey helicopter. The engineers wanted to take the body of the iconic Huey helicopter and remove the nose.

The Museum’s Huey served with four units in Vietnam between 1966 and 1970. Though now painted in National Guard livery, it retains an XM52 smoke generator similar to the one it carried for the ...