The Huskie entered service in late 1958 with the United States Air Force. It was also adopted by the United States Navy and United States Marine Corp, but not the United States Army. It was used extensively in the Vietnam war, and was an important Search and rescue helicopter.

Flying the first USAF rescue helicopter to arrive in Southeast Asia and the last to leave, HH-43 aircrews saved more lives in combat than crews flying any other USAF helicopter. From 1966 to 1970, they performed a total of 888 combat saves -- …

An Air Force HH-43 Huskie Helecopter rescue over the South China Sea. The Pedro Rescue Helicopter Association is an IRS qualified 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Charitable Association. We are Corporately Chartered in the State of Washington.

Multiservice tactical brevity codes are codes used by various military forces. The codes' procedure words, a type of voice procedure, are designed to convey complex information with a few words. This is a list of American standardized brevity code words.

The “Huskie” was used primarily for crash rescue and aircraft fire-fighting. It was in use with the U.S. Navy when delivery of the H-43As to the USAF Tactical Air Command began in November 1958. Delivery of the -B series began in June 1959. In mid-1962, the USAF changed the H-43 designation to HH-43 to reflect the aircraft’s rescue role.

The Kaman HH-43 Huskie was a helicopter with intermeshing rotors used by the United States Air Force, the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps from the 1950s until the 1970s.

Jul 10, 2012 · Responding to an F-105D shoot down, an HH-43F Huskie, supported by two USAF A-1E Skyraiders, flew 17 miles north of the DMZ to rescue Captain Robert V. Baird. The buildup in Vietnam caught the Air Force with few SAR squadrons and no SAR platforms designed for the missions required.

May 10, 2021 · Meet the Kaman HH-43 Huskie, which the United States Air Force initially acquired primarily for local base rescue (LBR) operations and for fighting aircraft fires.

A U.S. Air Force HH-43B Huskie practices rescue operations at an air base in South Vietnam during 1966. Note the exhaust pipe projecting over the tail assembly, four tail fins, wheel skids for operation in swamps or marshes, and two men coming aboard via the rescue hoist.

Huskies on Local Base Rescue Alert could be airborne in approximately one minute often reaching crashed airplanes before ground vehicles arrived. The powerful downwash from the HH-43's twin rotors would open a path through the flames for rescuers to the trapped crash victims.