halloa,

i'm busy to planning a dio with a UH-1? Medevac.(vietnam)
i bought Academy's uh-1c frog.
i have some pics of a medevac version, but i dont know how the inside looks of it and if there is a doorgunner in it. also i need some info/pics about the armor on the pilot/copilot seats.

greets Sander

No guns on a Medevac, by Geneva Convention rules, no medical vehicle can be armed. As for the interior, basically just the rear seat, nothing special on early C model medvacs, maybe some aid bags. Pilots seats could have been armored, maybe not, either would be correct. Basically they were standard slicks with Medevac markings.

hey sander, most of the medevac hueys were uh-id choppers. thay had a longger cabin. yes there is a door gunner. you wont belive how many web sites there are on this subjects. try this one. popasmoke.com most med hueys were called dust-offs. and a lot of times any huey would come to pickup a litter. try key word such as huey, uh-1d, helicopters. there are a ton of walk arounds on the web with many pictures inside and out. hope this will help a bit. even with armor plate on the seats

Hey, Sander

If you want pics of Huey dustoffs, use the key word dustoff in your search engine, you should come up with a site dedicated to medevacs and their crewmen...and if I remember correctly there are a ton of shots interior and exterior of the aircraft. I wish I could remember the actual web address of the site, I think it was dustoff.org or something like that. And yes, it was not uncommon to have weapons (individual weapons, occasionally door gunners) on the aircraft. While medics and corpsmen are non-combatants we are authorized to carry weapons to defend our patients, I carried a borrowed M16 in Iraq as well as my M9.

Howdy Sander,

Everybody is right on this one.
Both Charlie and Delta's were used. And, IIRC, even Bravo model's (I'll recheck ).
And in regards to being armed. Originally, Med-evac ships were not armed. The 'powers-that-be' even tried repainting the ships to ward off the Viet Cong firing on these ships, but that had (unfortunately) the opposite effect.....
So, to address the 'new situation', dustoff ships were armed initially with armed on-board crewmen, and then very quickly, ship-based armament.
Seat armour was simply based upon the ship being used at the time.

My best suggestion to you would be to share with us a close approximation of the time and area of your planned dio........

htht.

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