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| Keywords: SH-3A HS-2 USS Mahan 1967.jpg A camouflaged U S Navy Sikorsky SH-3A Sea King helicopter on the fantail of the guided missile destroyer USS Mahan DLG-11 in May 1967 The U S Navy stripped several SH-3As of their ASW-equipment and used them for armed search-and-rescue missions in the Gulf of Tonkin and North Vietnam This helicopter was assigned to helicopter anti-submarine squadron HS-2 Golden Falcons as part of Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 57 CVSG-57 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Hornet CVS-12 However the SAR-helicopters were often based on guided missile destroyers then called frigates which had small landing pads with less than one meter clearance to the superstructure This SH-3A BuNo 148985 tail code NV-70 was lost at sea two weeks after this photograph was taken on 23 May 1967 with the loss of the crew of four scan from Robert L Lawson ed The History of US Naval Air Power The Military Press New York USA 1985 ISBN 0-517-414813 p 180 US Navy cited as source 1967-05 photographer Capt Stephen T Millikin USN PD-USGov-Military-Navy SH-3A Sea King Combat Search and Rescue aircraft Combat Search and Rescue in the Vietnam War USS Mahan DDG-42 | ||||
