Word: hh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arranging the airlift of the 5,000 to 7,000 Americans left in Iran. The U.S. had hoped that two chartered Pan Am jets could handle the exodus. In case of a real emergency, Washington had secured the permission of Turkey to allow six C-131 planes and five HH-53 helicopters to be flown to the NATO air base at Incirli, Turkey, some 850 miles from Tehran. These would be used if the entire community of Americans in Iran had to be withdrawn on very short notice...
...operation was beginning under the overall command of Air Force Lieut. General John J. Burns. At 5:45 a.m. local time, he ordered 210 Marines led by Lieut. Colonel Randall W. Austin, the ships and warplanes at Utapao and aboard the Coral Sea to make final preparations. Three HH-53 Jolly Green Giant helicopters fluttered from Utapao to the destroyer escort Holt, where 40 Marines clambered down ropes to the deck...
Vigorous Fire. At the same time the Marines boarded the Mayaguez, nine CH-53 and HH-53 helicopters carrying 210 Marines attacked the island under cover of fighters?A-6 Intruders, A-7 Corsairs and F-4 Phantoms. It was a hard-fought battle. According to U.S. intelligence estimates, only between 100 and 200 Cambodians were defending the island, but they managed to shoot down three helicopters and damage two others. The Marines established a beachhead, then were pinned down for a time by vigorous small-arms fire from Cambodians hidden in a wooded area some 75 yds. from...
United Aircraft's Sikorsky Helicopter Division (Stratford, Conn.), CH-53 and HH-3 helicopters; $126 million...
...this all-American paragon, oozing the sap of maple-sugared kindness? When ABC aired the Howard Hughes story, a made-for-TV film biography of the reclusive millionaire, the protagonist was unrecognizable. When, for instance, Lana Turner anticipated marrying him, she had all her sheets monogrammed HH; Hughes turned her down with "marry Huntington Hartford." A more sinister Hughes emerged from Film Maker Ron Lyon's experience. He had reckoned without his subject. When Lyon tried to obtain newsreel clips of Hughes, the only ones available were of him smiling and waving. Then the insurance company, doubtless aware...