If you can help Mike, post your response here.

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From: mike-wilson@verizon.net
Subject: CH-53 question
To: webmaster@popasmoke.com

Good evening,
My name is Mike Wilson. I am a contract civilian photographer aboard Naval
Air Station Patuxent River by day and conducting research for a history of
the Marine Corps CH-53 helicopter by night.

While reading "Assault from the Sea: Essays on the History of Amphibious
Warfare", I found a reference to a CH-53 that was "lost to an SA-7(Strella)
missile" on 11 July 1972 in an area north of Quang Tri City.

Moreover, I found this reference on your website:
www.popasmoke.com/visions/image.php?source=1849 and I'm wondering if there
are one and the same or different?

Finally, I am aware the aircraft belonged to 9th Marine Amphibious Brigade
(MAB) but not the specific Marine Amphibious Unit (MAU) or squadron. I am
also trying to isolate the specific BuNo as well.

With that said, can you or your members fill in the blanks of this
particular mishap?

Thank you,
Mike Wilson
Great Mills, Maryland
mike-wilson@verizon.net