Re: H-19

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In a message dated 9/3/02 5:44:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time, evanhoe@arbuckleonline.com writes:


> I remember reading somewhere the Marines made the first "air assault" using 
> H-19's.  As I remember it, in 1952 they landed a Marine company (platoon, 
> battalion?) about 10 miles behind Chinese lines, stayed a few hours and then pulled the unit out.  Anyone have any information on this?


Ed,

Not sure about that, but Marine Helicopter Squadron (HMR) 161 flying Sikorsky 
HRS-1's accomplished the first troop carrying mission, Operation SUMMIT, on September 21, 1951, when sixty-five flights of the helicopters carried 244 men of the 1st MarDiv reconn company and 17,772 lbs of cargo to an isolated hill top. It took four hours.
Millett, Allan, Semper Fidelis, p. 506

Sandy