A Coast Guard HRP “Flying Banana” pictured conducting an exercise with a rescue ladder near Coast Guard Air Station (CGAS) Elizabeth City, North Carolina, in 1954, sixty years ago
An SH-3D Sea King of Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron (HS) 4 pictured tied down on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship Princeton (LPH 5) during operations in the Pacific Ocean on May 23, 1969, forty-five years ago today.
In a photograph taken on May 19, 1944, seventy years ago today, the pilot of a Coast Guard HNS-1 Hoverfly performs a test landing on a rocking platform simulating a rolling ship deck that was constructed at Coast Guard Air Station (CGAS) Brooklyn, New York.
An SH-3 Sea King of Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron (HS) 8 pictured in a hover over San Diego Bay during a practice rescue on May 16, 1968, forty-six years ago today.
An SH-3 Sea King of Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron (HS) 6 pictured launching a torpedo over the Pacific Ocean during a weapons test on May 13, 1965, forty-nine years ago today.
An HRS-2 of Helicopter Utility Squadron (HU) 1 operates from the flight deck of the carrier Constellation (CVA 64) on May 11, 1963, fifty-one years ago today.
A CH-53E Super Stallion of Helicopter Combat Support Squadron (HC) 4 launches from the amphibious assault ship Saipan (LHA 2) during Operation Dragon Hammer '90 in the Mediterranean Sea in May 1990, twenty-four years ago this month.
An SH-2F Seasprite of Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron (Light) (HSL) 37 pictured while engaged in helicopter in-flight refueling during operations in the Pacific in May 1980, thirty-four years ago this month.
A CH-53E Super Stallion of Helicopter Combat Support Squadron (HC) 4 pictured in flight over the Italian countryside during Dragon Hammer '90 exercises in May 1990, twenty-four years ago this month.
An SH-3D Sea King of Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron (HS) 2 operating from the carrier Enterprise (CVN 65) during operations supporting the evacuation of Saigon, Republic of Vietnam, on April 29, 1975, thirty-nine years ago today.