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Helicopter to Myitkyina Burma
1945-01-25
In response to an urgent radio message from Major General Howard C. Davidson, General Henry H. Arnold ordered a Helicopter to be flown in a Douglas C-54 from Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio to Myitkyina, Burma to rescue a party that had crashed in a North American B-25 in the Burma Jungle. American Airlines crew had flown the C-54 from Wright Field to Karachi, India and there ATC took over. Lt. Paul E. Shoemaker (left) and Captain F. W. Peterson, the two Helicopter pilots assigned to fly the rescue mission, pose. 25 January 1945.
