According to the MAG-16 Command Chronologies for Jan-Mar 1968: MMAF 30 Jan 51 82mm mortar hits 31 Jan 29 122mm rocket hits 25 Feb 9 122mm rock...
I cannot recall Andy's aircraft ID YP-93 (from After Action Reports) BuNo 145790 (from Popasmoke KIA database)
HMM-561 activated 31 Jan 1967 at Santa Ana. It remained in cadre status until 8 May 1968 when it officially stood up. Until deactivation 27 Aug 1969, ...
Helo colors - 1950s Helo colors - 1950s -- This information comes from "The Official Monogram US Navy and Marine Corps Aircraft Color Guide", v...
David McKenney wrote: I am researching information about my late father. He was awarded a Republic of Vietnam PUC and Armed Forces Expeditionary Med...
Another one is "Cavalry of the Sky" by Lynn Montross. It was written in 1954 and has a lot of information about VMO-6 and HMR-161, the two combat heli...
Thanks for the background history. I joined HMA-369 from HMA-169 in Apr '77 when the squadron was reformed at Camp Pendleton and was deployed with Det...
There was a CH-34 (Bureau No 149297) That BuNo doesn't match any UH-34s. The closest UH-34D BuNos are 149318-149402.
I heard a loud rotor noise yesterday am and assumed it was the local medevac landing at the park. The noise lasted longer than usual so I went to chec...
VMO-2 was flying armed escort missions as early as May 1965. That same month, during ops near Chu Lai, a Huey that came under fire strafed the enemy p...
Thanks Sid!
early history The history of HMLA-775 goes back beyond 1989. Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 775 was originally activated 2 September 195...
correction Whoever at 773 wrote this up got his facts wrong. HMLA-773's lineage actually begins in June 1968 when then Marine Medium Helicopter S...
169 history A couple of corrections: After returning from combat duty in Southeast Asia, the squadron received its first AH-1G Cobra HMA...
I got this from the VMO-6 Command Chronology: "On 11 December, at approximately 1000, an OV-10A from VMO-6, Bureau number 155453, Modex 04, crash...
57-1689 (Sikorsky c/n 58-796) was an Army CH-34A. It looks like it was transferred to Germany in 1961.
The HMM-362 Assn. website has a page listing the Bureau Numbers of aircraft known to have been in the squadron. It has a YL-75 with the BuNo 145748, b...
List of helos through 1962 I was able to get a copy of "Marines and Helicopters, 1946-1962" and put together a list of Marine helicopters operate...