This section contains various unit (Detachments, Squadrons , Wings, etc) documents, news articles, pictures and other related items of historical value.




AIRMAN LEAD EFFORT TO RESCUE INJURED AT SEA



RESERVE RESCUE TEAM TEAM PULLS 17 FROM FLOODWATERS  



AIRCREWS RESCUE DOZENS SWAMPED BY IKE



HELICOPTER AIRCREWS RESCUE HURRICANE VICTIMS



NEWS ARTICLES OF PERRIN AFB RESCUES



FAIRCHILD AIRCREW SAVES WOMAN



304TH ARRS SUPPORTS LOCAL DISASTERS



MOODY AIRMEN RESCUE CUBAN MIGRANTS FOUND AT SEA



37TH HELICOPTER SQUADRON LAUNCHES INTO ACTION



MH-53 PAVE LOW TAIL NUMBER 68-10357/FORMERLY APPLE 1 HEADED FOR THE AIR FORCE MUSEUM 

 




304TH ARRS MOUNT ST. HELENS RESCUE WORK (AIRMAN'S MAGAZINE COURTESY OF FELIX MCLARNEY)



BALAD AIRMAN RESCUE U. S. TEACHERS IN IRAQ




 

943rd RQG DEPLOYS IN SUPPORT OF WAR ON TERROR

(COURTESY OF CHUCK RUTH)




GETTING SETTLED: 56th RQS READY FOR ACTION



EXPEDITIONARY RESCUE HELPS SAVE AFGHAN BOY



38th ARRS TOPS 100th SAVE  (COURTESY OF JIM MARDOCK)



FAIRCHILD AIRMEN RESCUE STRANDED HIKER

 



DET 52 EARC HUSKIES FLY A 17,000 FEET IN SOUTH AMERICA (COURTESY OF JOHAN RAGAY)

 



FAIRCHILD HELICOPTER CREW RESCUES FALLEN HIKER




FAIRCHILD RESCUE FLIGHT SAVES 3 IN BUSY WEEK

 




20th SPECIAL OPERATIONS SQUADRON FACT SHEET




129th RESCUE WING TASKED TO SUPPORT FIREFIGHTING OPERATIONS






20th SOS CREWS SHOW GRATITUDE TO EMS FLIGHT CREWS




76th HELICOPTER SQUADRON BATTLES BUELLTON BLAZE




AIR, SPACE POWER: 40th HS CC SHARES HISTORY, LEGACY OF FLYING MISSIONS





 

AIR FORCE COPTER CREW ANSWERS CALL TO EVACUATE WOMAN FROM KOREAN ISLAND




40th HS RECORDS SAVE 368




54th HS PROVIDES SUPPORT AND SECURITY FROM THE AIR




CAPITAL FLYING--1st HS--AIR FORCE Magazine / January 2001






PAVE LOW AIRCRAFT TO DAVIS-MONTHAN PHOTOS


FINAL FLIGHT PHOTOS




21st SOS MISSION



36th RESCUE FLIGHT CREW MAKES TOUGHEST SAVE OF CAREERS




AIR FORCE HELICOPTER CREW RESCUES MAN INJURED IN WILDERNESS




MOODY AIRCRAFT CONDUCT CIVIL SEARCH AND RESCUE; RESCUE ONE INDIVIDUAL




 

21st  SOS ENDS ITS LEGACY AS A HELICOPTER SPECIAL OPERATIONS UNIT  13 SEPTEMBER 2007 




Det 2, 40th ARRW RAF UPPER-HEYFORD



THE H-21 ARRIVES AT BOLLING AFB




 

THE LAST H-21 HELICOPTERS DEPARTED EIELSON FOR ELMENDORF.   THE HELICOPTERS HAD BEEN ASSIGNED SINCE 1956 AND WERE A PART OF THE 5040th HELICOPTER SQUADRON. THEY WERE REPLACED BY HH-3s

 




MH-53M PAVE LOW IV PREPARES TO STEP OFF OF THE FLIGHT LINE

 



RESCUE OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND GULF WAR




HORNETS STAY "SEMPER PARATUS" FOR PAST 30 YEARS





AIR FORCE HELICOPTERS SAVE MORE THAN 4,200 PEOPLE DURING KATRINA  





76th HELICOPTER SQUADRON DEACTIVATES   





36th RESCUE FLIGHT MAKES 614th RESCUE





606th AIR COMMANDO SQUADRON (ACS) AT NAKHON PHANOM


(PILOT INTERVIEW COURTESY OF THE TLCB)




40th HELICOPTER SQUADRON





57th ARS LAJES  FIELD, AZORES





581ST ARC IN KOREA  (Ensley Sisk from Blog)





Heritage of the Quiet Professional (AFSOC)










 

 

In November 1952, the 12th Air Rescue Group stationed the 81st, 82nd and 83rd Air Rescue Squadrons at Bordeaux, providing air/sea rescue service and practicing pilot recoveries at Lake Cazaux near Aracheon. The squadrons flew Sikorsky H-19B "Chickasaw" helicopters and Grumman SA-16 Albatross fixed wing amphibian seaplanes.

 

The 12th ARG departed Bordeaux AB in July, 1953.

 

Air Rescue Service established a tenure at Sembach with the arrival of the 12th ARG and the subordinate 81st ARS on 25 September 1953.  The 12th ARG wound down operations and inactivated on 18 February, followed by the 81st ARS within a month.

 



 


 

Military Air Transport Service is redesignated Military Airlift Command. Air Rescue Service becomes Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service. Air Photographic and Charting Service is renamed Aerospace Audio-Visual Service.

 



 

 

H-5 helicopter aircrews from the 3rd Air Rescue Service recovered 148 paratrooper casualties in the second biggest paradrop of the Korean War. Despite intense mortar and ground fire, the crews flew 77 sorties in two days near Musan, North Korea.

 


 

 

Air Rescue Service aircrews flew 198 sorties in SA-16, H-19s, C-45s and C-82s through Feb. 17, to evacuate 161 persons and deliver 32,900 pounds of relief supplies during floods in the Netherlands.

 




58th SOW HERITAGE DAY






36th RESCUE FLIGHT


      





58th SOW HISTORY





TRAINING MISSION RESULTS IN REAL-LIFE RESCUE 






PAVE HAWK.COM---A COLLECTION OF PAVE HAWK RESCUES


                                       




33rd EXPEDTIONARY RESCUE SQUADRON (ERS) in AFGHANISTAN




66TH EXPEDITONARY RESCUE SQUADRON AT BALAD





40th HELICOPTER SQUADRON RECORDS SAVE # 364





5th OMS MINOT AFB ND





3rd AIR RESCUE GROUP/KOREA




943rd RESCUE GROUP (KATRINA EFFORT)




551st SPECIAL OPERATION SQUADRON DEACTIVATES




DET 14 42nd ARRS LUKE AFB AZ





Det 12 AARC RAF WOODBRIDGE UK




      



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