By John Tolson
On eleven December 1961 the USA airplane provider USNS Card docked in downtown Saigon with 32 U. S. military H-21 helicopters and four hundred males. The 57th Transportation corporation (Light
Helicopter) from castle Lewis, Wash., and the eighth Transportation corporation (Light Helicopter) from citadel Bragg, N. C., had arrived in Southeast Asia. This occasion had a two-fold value: it was
the first significant image of usa strive against energy in Vietnam; and, it was once the start of a brand new period of airmobility within the usa Army.
Just twelve days later those helicopters have been dedicated into the 1st airmobile strive against motion in Vietnam, Operation CHOPPER.
Approximately 1,000 Vietnamese paratroopers have been airlifted right into a suspected Viet Cong headquarters advanced approximately ten miles west
of the Vietnamese capitol. The paratroopers captured an elusive underground radio transmitter after assembly merely moderate resistance from a shocked enemy. significant George D. Hardesty, Jr. of the eighth Transportation corporation and significant Robert J. Dillard of the 57th may perhaps record that their devices had played outstandingly less than their first baptism of fire.
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