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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] This was Star Trek stuff yesterday



Matt is exactly right. Helicopters were also used in the CBI 
Theatre of Operations during WW2 for medical EVAC.  Mark Steed


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: MFJudge@aol.com
Reply-To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 15:38:53 EST

>And American Sikorskys were in limited service with the Coast 

Guard off the US east coast before the end of WWII...and the US 

Army Air Forces conducted some limited vertical envelopments in 

the CBI (Merrill's Mauraders or an attached unit, I believe) in 

late 1944...
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>Matt 
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