The Don Englebreston Collection
Personnel and Helicopters at Forward Operating Base, Operation Tailwind Era (Gene McCarley Collection)
Personnel gather near a heavy-lift helicopter at a forward landing zone during the era of Operation Tailwind, the September 1970 MACV-SOG raid into Laos led by Gene McCarley. Photographs like this document the helicopter-borne insertion and extraction operations that defined Special Operations missions along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Project: 219456