HH-3E helicopter above water

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Digital Object Identifier: 363-02614
Title: HH-3E helicopter above water
Description: Original caption: "Da Nang - HH-3E Jolly Green Giant - The HH-3E Jolly Green Giant, a twin-turbine engined helicopter is used in Vietnam primarily for search and rescue operations. The HH-3E is equipped with armor plating, extra external fuel tanks and a powerful exterior winch for lighting downed airman out of areas where other aircraft can't land. On rescue missions, it carries a crew of four - two pilots, a flight engineer and pararescue man." US military helicopter hovers over the sea. A soldier hangs from the bottom of the helicopter.
Date: 1967, approximate
Subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; United States. Air Force; Sikorsky HH-3E (Search and rescue helicopter); Search and rescue operations
Location: Da Nang, South Vietnam
Coordinates: 16.0545; 108.0717
Size: 20 x 25 cm
Container: B146, F3
Format: black-and-white prints (photographs)
Collection Number: MS 363
Collection Title: Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator: United States. Air Force
Collector: Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Publisher: Archives & Special Collections