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Captain James Green being airlifted from his crash site by a Sikorsky YR-4 helicopter in Shingbwiyang, Burma during World War 2
Men carry injured U.S. Army Air Force Jungle Rescue Pilot Captain James Green from hospital tent to completed MEDEVAC landing zone in Shingbwiyang, Burma during World War II. Green had been injured in a crash of his helicopter. Dr. Underwood talks on hand radio as men sight an incoming Sikorsky YR-4 helicopter. Engineer sets off smoke flare. Helicopter lands and men hold it. Men carry Captain Green on litter to the helicopter and he shakes hands with Pilot Lieutenant Raymond Murdock. Dr. Underwood gives Green an injection in his arm. Men put Captain Green in the helicopter and it takes off. Men cheer and shake hands with Dr. Underwood. This is an early example of one of the first helicopter MEDEVAC (Medical Evacuation) flights in a combat zone. Prior to this MEDEVAC flight, this particular helicopter, a Sikorsky YR-4, had been dismantled at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio on January 17, 1945, loaded on a C-54 transport, and flown to the North Burma theater of operations. It was reassembled and flown by Capt. Frank Peterson, USAAF, on January 26, 1945 to evacuate wounded weather observer Private Howard Ross from a 4,700 foot mountain ridge in the Naga hills of Burma.
An injured U.S. soldier is airlifted by Sikorsky YR-4B helicopter and and tended by medics in Burma during World War II
Aerial view, from a Piper Cub airplane, of small outposts cut out of the jungle in Burma, during World War 2. A Sikorsky YR-4B helicopter is seen in flight, below. Scene shifts to a wounded soldier being taken from a helicopter, placed on a stretcher. A doctor or medical corpsman with stethescope around his neck, speaks briefly to the patient. Next, he is carried into a field medical building. A C-47 aircraft is parked in the background.Some Army personnel, including a woman nurse, converse while standing near the helicopter. Several men push the helicopter backwards towards a cleared area. A C-47 is seen taking off. Final sequence shows cumulus clouds as seen from a fixed wing aircraft in flight.
10th Air Jungle Rescue Detachment in Burma, World War II. Army Sikorsky YR-4B helicopter, piloted by Lt. Carter Harmon in World War II
Views from inside Army Sikorsky YR-4B helicopter of the 10th Air Jungle Rescue Detachment, being piloted by Lieutenant Carter Harmon in Burma, during World War 2. The jungle is seen as a blur in some views. The back of Lt. Harmon's head can be seen.
U.S. 10th Air Jungle Rescue Detachment performs Rescue mission behind Japanese lines in Burma during World War 2
10th Air Jungle Rescue Detachment mission in Burma, during World War Two. U.S. Airmen talk in front of jeep bearing Letters "AJR" on its windshield.. They examine a map. Ground crew pull props through on B-25 Mitchell bomber and clean gun turret canopies. View of pilots inside cockpit of B-25 in flight over jungle. A jungle rescue team discusses mission in front of a Sikorsky YR-4B helicopter parked at field. Pilot, Lieutenant Carter Harmon, climbs into cockpit of the helicopter. Ground crew seen pulling props through on a B-25. Views from inside a B-25 flying over jungle. The object of rescue is is seen. (TSgt Ed "Murphy" Hladovcak of the 1st Air Commandos, piloting a Stinson L-1 Vigilant with three wounded British soldiers on board, had been forced down behind Japanese lines, several miles from Mawlu, Burma.) Two B-25s are seen parked on a rough field. A white tent is nearby and many Burmese people are seen. Airmen are seen around a B-25. Brief view of happy airmen inside a vehicle. (Note: This is probably the first use of a helicopter for a combat rescue. )
Sikorsky YR-4 Whirlaway helicopter hovers over a field where a crashed B-25 aircraft sits in Burma during World War II
United States Army Air Forces pilot fliesYR-4 Whirlaway helicopter duriing World War 2. He handles the control stick as instrument panel is seen. Helicopter lands in a grassy field. Helicopter in flight as pilot handles control stick. Whirlaway hovers over a crashed B-25J of the 83rd Bomb Squadron, 12th BG, in a grassy field.
United State helicopter pilot examines a crashed B-25 in Burma during World War II
American pilot, examining a crashed B-25, in Burma, during World War 2. He places instruments, he's removed from the aircraft, on its wing. The aircraft is a B-25J serial 43-3951 "Cornhusker" of the 83rd Bomb Squadron, 12th Bombardment Group. He gets down from the wing carrying the instruments and moves towards his Sikorsky YR-4B helicopter. He gets into the helicopter and starts the engine. The Helicopter lifts off and hovers low over the crashed B-25.
