Malignant USMC narcissists claim first use of helicopters in war--when clearly the Germans and the U.S. Army had beat them by over 5 years by using helicopters in COMBAT in WW2--not administrative moves later on in Korea:
http://www.combatreform.org/fries.htm
Its time we stop the constant USMC output of self-serving lies by disbanding this religious death cult of self-worship.
YOUTUBE user Grommo who found this rare footage writes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SrUyNG4fYA
Are the Korea claims taken seriously by anyone nowdays?
Yes. there were even helicopter units, and two Fa223s stationed at Münster as a rescue unit but many of the helis were used individually. 5 of the earlier Fl 265s were made and operated in submarine hunting and convoy protection in the Baltic between 1939 and 1940 (before Sikorsky had even flown the Vs300). Fl 282 was in production in 1940 and used in the Aegean and Adriatic, Baltic and Mediterranean by the Kriegsmarine.
Fl282s spotted the attack of the 1st and 2nd White Russian in far Pomerania but german defenses were too weak to thwart the attack. They were used for artillery fall spotting and 3 Fl 282s stationed at Berlin- Rangsdorf did artillery spotting in defence of Berlin in 1945.
The Fa223s at Münster(not Müssen) also did recovery of airframes and engines. In one case in 1944 one carried the 1.3 ton engine of a downed Fw190 32kms back to a base.
Fa 223s also did civilian rescues.
cool!
rodferro 4 years ago 5