 Editor in Chief Bill   | 10 Apr 2008 2:58 p.m. PST |
Anyone know any information about the use of these early helicopters in WWII? Would there by any skirmish gaming potential in a mission involving an R-4? |
| Sergeant Ewart | 10 Apr 2008 3:39 p.m. PST |
Simply Google Sikorsky R-4 Burma – there is a lot of info. available. Regards
Gerry McGinty |
Dave Schmid  | 10 Apr 2008 3:41 p.m. PST |
I believe that the R-4 could only carry two people, the pilot and one passenger or wounded soldier or downed pilot. |
| Etranger | 10 Apr 2008 6:55 p.m. PST |
One of the Military History periodicals (possibly MH itself) had an article on the first such mission flown in Burma. It was 12-18 months ago now. There is quite a bit on the internet too, as Gerrry says. |
 Doms Decals  | 11 Apr 2008 1:52 a.m. PST |
"…the first such mission flown in Burma. It was 12-18 months ago now." Blimey – as recent as that…. ;-) |
| Fatman | 11 Apr 2008 4:41 a.m. PST |
Please ignore Dom, the method used by most women, he can,t help himself. Fatman PS See ya in a month Dom-San |
| Jemima Fawr | 11 Apr 2008 9:14 a.m. PST |
I've read lots of accounts about L-4, L-5, Tiger Moth and Auster aircraft being used for casevac (the casualty was usually stuffed doen the length of the fuselage on his stretcher, behind the pilot), but I've never come across account of an R-4 casevac, though I understand that they were certainly operational out there. |
| Fatman | 11 Apr 2008 11:13 a.m. PST |
I know they did it that way with L-5's, that's what my Dad was Casevaced in. Burma early 44. Heatstroke before anybody asks, and he always felt vaguely embarrassed about it. Claimed that only really injured people should be flown out. The fact that the heatstroke was so serious he never recovered his sense of smell didn't count to him. What always amused him was after he recovered he was sent to rest and await transit to his unit at a quite little admin base, a place called Kohima.
Fatman
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| King Cobra | 11 Apr 2008 3:15 p.m. PST |
The Epic of Flight/Time-Life Books
Title: The Helicopters Copyright 1982
Pages 86 through 91
An R-4 was used to rescue Captain James Green of the U.S. Tenth Air Force. April 4, 1945
He crashed just three minutes flying time from Shinbwiyang Air Field in Burma.
Took rescue and med teams a day and half to reach him. Took Combat engineers, ATC rescue crew and volunteers another 20 days to level a hilltop landing zone.
The story is well documented with photographs. |
| Etranger | 11 Apr 2008 6:54 p.m. PST |
The article Dom, the article……… ;-) |
