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The tiny Cold War helicopter the Marines almost took into combat

The 1950s were a time of rapid innovation in aviation. The world emerged from World War II with an intense curiosity about new technologies and a heightened interest in military superiority. The Cold ...
Military Times

This Korean War aviator was the first helicopter pilot to receive MOH

First used by the 1st Air Commando in World War II, the Sikorsky R-4 often fell short of its role in rescuing airmen downed in the mountains and rainforests of the China-Burma-India front but as the ...
Tulsa World

Iraq war helicopter pilot gives up flying to become chaplain, minister to guardsmen

Broken Arrow native Jay Henderson, a Blackhawk helicopter pilot with 450 combat flight hours in Iraq, was commissioned a chaplain and promoted to captain in the Oklahoma Army National Guard in a ...