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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 98786

USS Consolation
(AH-15)

A Sikorski H-5 helicopter of the 3rd Air Rescue Squadron approaching the ship's newly-installed helicopter deck, circa December 1951.
The helo was carrying litter patients on the last leg of an operation in which 37 wounded American and South Korean Marines were evacuated from an airstrip in north central Korea.

Official U.S. Air Force Photograph, from the collections of the U.S. Naval Historical Center.

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Image posted 26 June 2005