The Don Englebreston Collection
SOG Team Members and UH-1 Helicopter, Gene McCarley Operation Tailwind Collection
Members of a MACV-SOG reconnaissance element gather near a UH-1 Huey helicopter before a mission, part of the Gene McCarley Collection documenting the September 1970 Operation Tailwind incursion into Laos. Captain McCarley commanded the ground element of this classified cross-border operation, one of the most highly decorated actions of the covert war along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Project: 219480