The Don Englebreston Collection
CH-53/HH-53 Heavy-Lift Helicopters on Ramp, Gene McCarley Collection (Operation Tailwind)
Two heavy-lift CH-53/HH-53 helicopters sit on the ramp at a Vietnam-era airfield. Aircraft of this type carried out the insertion and extraction of the MACV-SOG exploitation force during the September 1970 Operation Tailwind raid into Laos, commanded on the ground by Gene McCarley. Project: 219454