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korea - the first helicopter war - ELMC Blog  That crucial trip aboard a chopper from Marine Observation Squadron 6 ... evacuation roles, the Navy was flying those same choppers from aircraft ... Within months, Air Force helicopters joined the Marine choppers in rushing badly wounded ... use of the helicopter for medical evacuations," one Army history declared.
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Evolution of civil aeromedical helicopter aviation. - NCBI  (1)Air Transport Department, Schumpert Medical Center, Shreveport, LA. ... during the 1980s is the culmination of several hundred years of military medical innovation. ... The Napoleonic Era and the American Civil War provided the framework for the ... The use of airplanes to evacuate the wounded eventually led to using...
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Lessons learnt and battlefield innovations from the Middle East are ...  Damage control surgery is used extensively in the area of operations, with careful ... These devices resulted in multi-site injuries and fragmentation wounds3. ... Haemorrhage from extremity wounds accounted for one tenth of this number and ... These phenomena will make the aeromedical evacuation of a burns patient...
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Medical Evacuation, History and Development - Defense Technical ...  In the earliest wars, there was no organised system for evacuating wounded ... However, in his later years, Larrey developed these "ambulances ... One of the most-used forms of patient transportation today is aircraft. .... Looking back, we are forced to observe that the record of air evacuation in WWII and the Korean War,.
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The Rise of the Helicopter During the Korean War | HistoryNet  Jan 16, 2011 ... Few technical innovations were equal in importance to the growing use of ... The first recorded use of a U.S. helicopter in combat came in May ... created on December 1, 1947, to test the use of rotary wing aircraft .... In the next month alone, the Air Rescue choppers evacuated 83 critically wounded soldiers,...
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Major B. F. S. BADEN-POWELL, Honorary Fellow AN APPRECIATION  Founder oj the "Aeronautical Journal", which celebrates its ... world movement, the Boy Scouts. ... as for the development of man-lifting kites and for the .... ship; also the Spencer (fitted with an engine designed .... before the Wright Brothers made their first flight. It reads, .... Journal the Editor of Invention wrote an article which.
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May 27, 1941 photos on Flickr | Flickr  1830 - 3 Indian tribes, Sioux, Sauk & Fox, signs a treaty giving the US most of ..... The Polikarpov I-16 was a Soviet fighter aircraft of revolutionary design; it was ... The M-22 powered TsKB-12 first took to the air on 30 December 1933 with the ..... Gerhard Schrder und Franz-Josef Wuermeling), die einen Gesetzentwurf zur...
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the history and development of - Martin-Baker  occupant, and measuring the accelerations and rates of rise of g involved. .... seat was clear of the aircraft, a drogue was deployed to stabilise the seat, ... considerable force well clear of the seat vortex, taking with it the nylon cord .... explosive charge in the ejection gun, but enough has already been said to show that this.
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History of military ballooning - Wikipedia  Balloons were the first mechanisms used in air warfare. Their role was strictly recognized for ... The first decisive use of a balloon for aerial observation was performed by the French Aerostatic ... The first major-scale use of balloons in the military occurred during the American Civil War with the Union Army Balloon Corps...
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Jeopary Questions page 699 - 12-LETTER WORDS - TriviaBistro.com  ... known as Lent begins on this day  THE MUSEUM OF FLIGHT: After their use in WWI, Curtiss JN-4 Jennys were popular with these "storming" aerial acrobats.
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The Red Baron & Aerial Weapons of World War I | The Most ...  Jul 17, 2012 ... World War I transformed early airplanes such as the Sopwith Camel and the Fokker Dr. 1 triplane into deadly weapons of war and created the first flying aces such as ... pilot earned more lasting fame for his aerial exploits than Germany's ... 80 Allied planes and earning the nickname "The Red Baron" before...
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Ernest Hemingway - Guide to Nobel Prize  He was repeatedly rejected for military service because of a defective eye, but he managed to enter World War I as an ambulance driver for the ... On July 8, 1918, not yet 19 years old, he was injured on the Austro-Italian front at Fossalta di Piave. ... While serving with the Italian ambulance service during World War I, the...
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Article | Page 896 | National Review  Mar 2, 2015 ... Mahan Air, a private airline, was called out in 2011 by the U.S. ... the U.S. and its European allies fled the country over the past weeks, as it sank into chaos. .... after taking damage that would knock other fighters out of the sky  there ... a 2.4-second burst from the powerful GAU-8 is equal to that of a round...
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Treatment of War Wounds: A Historical Review  Feb 14, 2009 ... Our purpose is to review the evolution of military trauma care during the past two and a ... Outrage over the poor treatment offered to the British wounded led the War ... severity of injury but did so to make the most effective use of medical resources, ... The then-unprecedented mass casualties in World War I...
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Aviation in World War I - Wikipedia  World War I was the first major conflict involving the large-use of aircraft. Tethered observation balloons had already been employed in several wars, ... Ace fighter pilots were portrayed as modern knights, and many became popular heroes. ... By the end of the war, Great Britain had formed the world's first air force to be...
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Jeopary Questions page 1926 - EUROPEAN HISTORY - TriviaBistro ...  20th CENTURY INNOVATIONS: After watching smoke emitted by WWI airplanes, Major J.C. Savage developed the technique for this  "EN" THE BEGINNING: In...
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Curtiss JN-4 - Topics  The Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" was one of a series of "JN" biplanes built by the ... for the U.S. Army, the "Jenny" (the common nickname derived from "JN-4", with an ... It was widely used during World War I to train beginning pilots, with an ... the first aerial ambulances, carrying out this role both during wartime and in later years.
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Aviation in World War I - Wikipedia  World War I was the first major conflict involving the large-use of aircraft. Tethered observation ... Pilots and engineers learned from experience, leading to the development of many specialized types, including ... locate the enemy, even if early air reconnaissance was hampered by the newness of the techniques involved.
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Pull Over! It's an Emergency!: World War I Ambulance Drivers ...  Jul 28, 2014 ... American Red Cross Ambulances in Italy, World War I Longshaw Kraus ... During World War I, Red Cross employees and volunteers provided medical ... the front lines, including one Ernest Hemingway and a young Walt Disney. ... letters, diaries and other documents, these veterans help to paint a vivid...
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30th. July 1915, The battle of Hooge. Germans put their new ...  Germans put their new weapon, the flammenwerfer, or flamethrower, to devastating use against the Allies. ... it was called simply the World War or the Great War, and thereafter the First World ..... Soldiers were in fear of these while they just sat in their trenches. ...... The Nazis tried to recruit British ss volunteers from Pows.
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Ace for the Ages: World War I Fighter Pilot Manfred von Richthofen ...  It is the most romanticized image in air combat history: a scarlet triplane, ... a Prussian nobleman whose own active military career had been cut short by deafness. ... The Fokker did not give him the success he had expected, and neither pilot did .... Leading by example, he shot down the squadron's first enemy aircraft shortly...