USA - Marine Corps Boeing CH-46E Sea Knight 154803
Gerard van Oostrom
richu
Jan Damrath
Murmeldeier
Violetta Banas
Richard Parkhouse
JanS
Piotr Gryzowski
Sergey Voytovich
Per Voetmann
Sebastian Wajda
Roman N.
Andre Giron Bernaud
Ricardo Hebmüller
Martin Šabatka
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Wojtek Turbak
Stefan Thomas
Image ID: 1198308
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Operator: USA - Marine Corps - 154803
Aircraft: Boeing - CH-46E Sea Knight
Airport: USA - California - Miramar MCAS - Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum
Category: Main database
Photo taken on 2018-5-2 by Jetzguy [Contact]
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Photographer's remark
(31.5.2019, 22:57 CET)
Inside the CH-46E. This old girl has a special place in history. Her call sign in Vietnam was "Lady Ace 09". During the fall of Saigon she was one of the last helicopters to leave the American Embassy. She landed on the roof and took the last of the diplomatic staff including the American Ambassador to safety on board the USS Blueridge command ship off the coast of Vietnam. She then returned to pick up 25 of the last 61 US Marines guarding the Embassy grounds. Her sister helicopter carried another 25 and the last 11 were picked up by another HH-46 from another unit. These were the last American airlift missions from the Embassy before the North Vietnamese completed their takeover of the city. A very nice piece of history.
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