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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-445034

Admiral William M. Fechteler, USN
,
Chief of Naval Operations (left)

Boards a Sikorski HO3S-1 helicopter at airfield K-18, while visiting Korea.
Photo is dated 18 July 1952.
Note the helicopter's rescue hoist and nickname, "Lucky Lady", painted on its door.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 122KB; 590 x 765 pixels

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7 December 1999