File:SH-3A HS-2 USS Mahan 1967.jpg
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| Description | A camouflaged U.S. Navy Sikorsky SH-3A Sea King helicopter on the fantail of the guided missile destroyer USS Mahan (DLG-11) in May 1967. The U.S. Navy stripped several SH-3As of their ASW-equipment and used them for armed search-and-rescue missions in the Gulf of Tonkin and North Vietnam. This helicopter was assigned to helicopter anti-submarine squadron HS-2 Golden Falcons as part of Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 57 (CVSG-57) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CVS-12). However, the SAR-helicopters were often based on guided missile destroyers (then called "frigates"), which had small landing pads with less than one meter clearance to the superstructure. This SH-3A, BuNo 148985 (tail code NV-70), was lost at sea two weeks after this photograph was taken on 23 May 1967, with the loss of the crew of four. |
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| Source | scan from Robert L. Lawson (ed.): The History of US Naval Air Power. The Military Press, New York (USA), 1985. ISBN 0-517-414813, p. 180. US Navy cited as source. |
| Author | photographer: Capt. Stephen T. Millikin, USN |
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| 19:28, 27 August 2008 |  | 892 × 575 (167 KB) | Cobatfor | ==Summary== {{Information |Description=A camouflaged U.S. Navy Sikorsky SH-3A ''Sea King'' helicopter on the fantail of the guided missile destroyer ''USS Mahan (DLG-11)'' in May 1967. The U.S. Navy stripped several SH-3As of their ASW-equipment and used |
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