File:HH-1Ks from HAL-3 over Vietnam 1967.jpeg

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Description While on a combat mission near Can Tho, Republic of Vietnam, on 9 November 1967, the door gunner of an armed U.S. Navy Bell UH-1B Huey Helicopter Attack Squadron (Light) 3 (HA(L)-3 Seawolves, Detachment 7, gun at the ready, scans the rice paddies below him for signs of the enemy movement. Another Huey hovers over the river banks to assist in patrol operations by the Navy's River Patrol Boats. The only squadron of its kind, HA(L)-3 was established to specifically meet the tactical requirements of riverine warfare during the Vietnam War.
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Source U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 2001.084.034.001
Author U.S. Navy

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