SH-3A Sea King helicopter

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Digital Object Identifier: 363-02650
Title: SH-3A Sea King helicopter
Description: Original caption: "An SH-3A Sea King Helicopter from the attack carrier USS Bon Homme Richard races to rescue a downed U.S. Air Force pilot from an inland ridge east-northeast of Hai Phong, North Vietnam, May 23. The Sea King is a unit of helicopter squadron two, search and rescue detachment presently on station off the coast of North Vietnam." A US Navy helicopter flies over the open ocean.
Date: 1967, May 23
Subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Sea King (Helicopter); Bonhomme Richard (Amphibious assault ship (multi-purpose) : LHD-6); United States. Navy; United States. Air Force; Search and rescue operations; Military helicopters
Location: North Vietnam
Coordinates: 21.0278; 105.8342
Size: 15 x 22 cm
Container: B146, F4
Format: black-and-white prints (photographs)
Collection Number: MS 363
Collection Title: Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator: United States. Navy. Fleet, 7th
Collector: Keever, Beverly Deepe
Copyright Information: These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
Publisher: Archives & Special Collections
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