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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