Camp Holloway Discussion Forum Archive 02 - 05/07/01 to 02/28/03

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This is from the Unit History, such as it is, for Jan 17, 1970:

" 17 Jan. During troop insertions for the 4th Inf. Div. 1st Bdg, 7 KM north of LZ HARDTIMES"GATOR 464" while being cleared into an LZ hit a tree with the tailrotor. The aircraft lost its tail rotor instantly, and LT MASAK cut the throttle and initiated a hovering autorotation. The pilot lost control and the aircraft rolled. The aircraft was a total loss, but there were no injuries to the pilots, crew, and six infantry paxs on board.
Learned procedures of emergency saved WO1 ROUSSELL and his crew as he had lifted off LZ, and was enroute to AN KHE where he detected cyclic feedback. Shortly afterwards he experienced a complete loss of his hydraulic system. He executed a running landing at AN KHE main without futher damage to the aircraft or the crew. "

In Dec 69 thru Mar 70, we were spending a lot of time in the areas around Happy Valley and VC Valley; and working a lot from LZ's English and Hardtimes. Maybe Papasan, Mix and Shoo can help us out here - but some of our other slick A/C's then were: Sherman, Horn, Mittendorf, Morrison, Breheny, Norton, Ausdemore, Xerri, Stephens, Atwood, Gant, and Torres. There were a lot of others, but I can't recall names so well myself. Plus, so many of the A/C's I do remember were later pilots, such as myself and the guys who came into the unit after Dec 1969.

Pickett

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