The Don Englebreston Collection
SOG Reconnaissance Team and Extraction Helicopter, Operation Tailwind Collection, Gene McCarley Slides
A heavy-lift helicopter sits on a remote landing zone as members of a MACV-SOG reconnaissance team gather near its ramp. This photograph is part of the collection documenting Operation Tailwind, the 1970 covert cross-border mission into Laos led on the ground by then-Captain (later Lt. Col.) Gene McCarley. Project: 219515