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This Coast Guard Crew Worked Through the Night to Rescue Survivors From Floodwaters On Christmas Eve, 1955

This Coast Guard Crew Worked Through the Night to Rescue Survivors From Floodwaters On Christmas Eve, 1955
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USCG Helos to the Rescue (Part 2)


(Coast Guard Historian’s Office)
After Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Ernest J. King assigned sea-going development of helicopters to the U.S. Coast Guard on 15 February 1943, naval aviation s first designated rotary-wing pilot, Coast Guard Lieutenant Commander Frank Erickson, tested and accepted the Navy s first helicopter, an HNS-1, at Bridgeport, Connecticut on 16 October later that year. Thus began a 74-year journey featuring man’s ingenuity, skill, and daring as industry and technology constantly improved the aircraft.
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