B-25 Mitchell - Air Apaches U.S. Marine Corps Sikorsky S-61 Helicopter airplane model

Sikorsky S-61 Helicopter airplane model

Previously the DC-7 designation had applied to a commercial development of the C74 Globemaster I that PanAm had ordered

first saw combat in March l965 in Vietnam

the HH-60J has numerous upgrades including a state-of-the-art electronics package

as a replacement for the CF-100 fleet in Air Defense Command

B-25 Mitchell - Air Apaches U.S. Marine Corps Sikorsky S-61 Helicopter airplane modelB 25 Air Apache airplane model. The 345th Medium Bombardment Group, "The Air Apaches" were widely known in the Southwest Pacific theatre. Their brightly painted Falcon (498th Sqdn), Bat (499th Sqdn), Bat (500th Sqdn) and Panther (501st Sqdn) Mitchell B 25J twin engine bombers flew at low level, often at tree top height. Converted to gun nosed B 25's, with up to 12 forward firing fifty caliber machine guns they were well respected and feared by the