Rabu, 06 September 2017

Uncle Sam’s Flying Fire Trucks

U.S. Forest Service adaptations of helicopters to fight raging forest fires in 1967 proved to be highly effective in Vietnam. “Here come the flying fire trucks!”shouted the heat-blasted engineer sergeant, rallying his weary firefighter troops. Their smoke-reddened eyes picked up a loosely strung-out flight of Chinook helicopters beating through the hazy Vietnam sky toward the …

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