Rescue
Rescue
Clip: 425454_1_1
Year Shot: 1967
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1766
Original Film: 040-093-02
HD: N/A
Location: Vietnam - waterway
Timecode: -
New river-to-air rescue techniques in Vietnam is demonstrated as a hovering helicopter plucks wounded men in litters from the deck of a speeding patrol boat, thus saving precious minutes. A helicopter hovers over a military speedboat. A soldiers lays in a stretcher. A weighted hook is lowered from the helicopter to the boat. Soldiers in the boat attach the stretcher to the hook. The soldier is lifted from the boat to the helicopter. Close-up shots from within the helicopter as the soldier is brought within it.