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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97115

Korean War Helicopter Casualty Evacuation


"Marine Invents Litter Cover -- Leatherneck Staff Sgt. Arthur L. Kent, ..., a member of Marine Observation Squadron VMO-6 of the First Marine Aircraft Wing in Korea, zips up a new litter cover he invented to aid casualty evacuation."
Photograph and caption released by Commander Naval Forces, Far East, under date of 29 April 1952.
The helicopter is a Bell HTL.

Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center.

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16 November 1999