According to lore, Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival plays in your head every time you see a UH-1 Huey
When you make an anti-war song so good it becomes pro-war.
According to lore, Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival starts playing in your head every time you see a UH-1 Huey. The wonderful video in this post, which includes Fortunate Song with the addition of Huey Effect: the Perfect Combo, confirms the statement.
Notable in the 1994 film Forrest Gump, “Fortunate Son” is played and serves as the opening song in the scene where Forrest and Bubba are flying in a U.S. Army UH-1C Huey helicopter to the war zone in South Vietnam, sometime during the Vietnam War, about 1966.
The Bell UH-1 Iroquois, also referred to as the “Huey,” was a multi-utility helicopter that became well-known for its service in the Vietnam War. Between 1955 and 1976, Bell produced more than 16,000 of the powerful helicopters it had created in the 1950s, almost 7,000 of which saw service in Vietnam.
Widely used in Southeast Asia for troop and equipment transportation as well as a few restricted support and attack missions. The several UH-1 versions proved that they could fulfill the demands placed on a really lightweight, multi-purpose helicopter. The fact that they are still in use in numerous armies around the world where they are viewed as the ideal solution to carry out the most varied of missions is due in part to their mission capabilities, ease of maintenance, lower purchase price, and multipurpose operational and capability characteristics.