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English: Camp Eagle, Vietnam. Members of the 101st Airborne Division, examine a damaged AH-1G Cobra gunship at El Toro Pad. The damage was caused by an enemy rocket ...
The U.S. Marine Corps also operated the AH-1G Cobra in Vietnam for a short time before acquiring the twin-engine AH-1J Cobras. [22] The AH-1Gs had been adopted by the Marines as an interim measure, a total of 38 helicopters having been transferred from the U.S. Army to the Marines in 1969. [30] [31]
An AH-1F Cobra on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center AH-1G. 66-15249 - American Legion Post #255 in Croswell, Michigan. [citation needed] 66-15298 – Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum on Ford Island, Hawaii [33] 67-15574 – Palm Springs Air Museum in Palm Springs, California [34] 67-15642 – Veterans Memorial Park of Collegedale ...
AH-1G damaged by rocket fire at El Toro Pad, 4 May 1970. The base was named "Camp Eagle" when the 101st Airborne Division moved their headquarters here in March 1969. [1] The 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne was based at Camp Eagle from December 1969 until December 1971, [2]: 156 when the following units were detached and remained at the base:
It was June 18, 1968, and then-1st Lt. Taylor and his copilot had been called out in their AH-1G Cobra helicopter to rescue a four-man long-range reconnaissance patrol team who were pinned down by ...
The squadron was assigned AH-1G Cobras, many of which had seen action with Marine squadrons in Vietnam. HMA-773 relocated to NAS Atlanta, Georgia during June 1976, absorbing the personnel of HML-765 which had just been deactivated. In late 1978, HMA-773 transitioned to the twin-engine AH-1J Sea Cobra which they operated for the next fourteen years.
On 3 July Troop B gunships destroyed a truck south of the A Sầu airfield. On 8 July Troop B gunships killed 3 PAVN and destroyed a .51 cal machine gun. On 15 July Troop A gunships killed 10 PAVN and an AH-1G was hit by .51 cal fire and attempted to autorotate at Firebase Shepard and crashed in a river resulting in 1 crewman killed and 1 missing.
The remains of all 67 people who were killed in the Washington, D.C. plane crash last week have been recovered, authorities announced Tuesday, adding that all but one of the victims has been ...