Kaman HH-43 Huskie: The U.S. Air Force’s Vietnam War Savior
Peter Suciu
Security, Americas
A history of a sometimes forgotten part of a hard conflict.
While the St. Bernard is the dog breed best known as rescue dogs, for downed American pilots in Vietnam their savior was a rescue chopper named after a different breed.
Meet the Kaman HH-43 Huskie, which the United States Air Force initially acquired primarily for local base rescue (LBR) operations and for fighting aircraft fires. During the Vietnam War it was used as a short-range... Читать дальше...