UNIT ARCHIVES

This section contains various unit (Detachments, Squadrons , Wings, etc) documents, news articles, pictures and other related items of historical value.

AIRMAN LEAD EFFORT TO RESCUE INJURED AT SEA

RESERVE RESCUE TEAM TEAM PULLS 17 FROM FLOODWATERS

AIRCREWS RESCUE DOZENS SWAMPED BY IKE

HELICOPTER AIRCREWS RESCUE HURRICANE VICTIMS

NEWS ARTICLES OF PERRIN AFB RESCUES

FAIRCHILD AIRCREW SAVES WOMAN

304TH ARRS SUPPORTS LOCAL DISASTERS

MOODY AIRMEN RESCUE CUBAN MIGRANTS FOUND AT SEA

37TH HELICOPTER SQUADRON LAUNCHES INTO ACTION

MH-53 PAVE LOW TAIL NUMBER 68-10357/FORMERLY APPLE 1 HEADED FOR THE AIR FORCE MUSEUM

304TH ARRS MOUNT ST. HELENS RESCUE WORK (AIRMAN'S MAGAZINE COURTESY OF FELIX MCLARNEY)

BALAD AIRMAN RESCUE U. S. TEACHERS IN IRAQ

943rd RQG DEPLOYS IN SUPPORT OF WAR ON TERROR

(COURTESY OF CHUCK RUTH)

GETTING SETTLED: 56th RQS READY FOR ACTION

EXPEDITIONARY RESCUE HELPS SAVE AFGHAN BOY

38th ARRS TOPS 100th SAVE (COURTESY OF JIM MARDOCK)

FAIRCHILD AIRMEN RESCUE STRANDED HIKER

DET 52 EARC HUSKIES FLY A 17,000 FEET IN SOUTH AMERICA (COURTESY OF JOHAN RAGAY)

FAIRCHILD HELICOPTER CREW RESCUES FALLEN HIKER

FAIRCHILD RESCUE FLIGHT SAVES 3 IN BUSY WEEK

20th SPECIAL OPERATIONS SQUADRON FACT SHEET

129th RESCUE WING TASKED TO SUPPORT FIREFIGHTING OPERATIONS

20th SOS CREWS SHOW GRATITUDE TO EMS FLIGHT CREWS

76th HELICOPTER SQUADRON BATTLES BUELLTON BLAZE

AIR, SPACE POWER: 40th HS CC SHARES HISTORY, LEGACY OF FLYING MISSIONS

AIR FORCE COPTER CREW ANSWERS CALL TO EVACUATE WOMAN FROM KOREAN ISLAND

40th HS RECORDS SAVE 368

54th HS PROVIDES SUPPORT AND SECURITY FROM THE AIR

CAPITAL FLYING--1st HS--AIR FORCE Magazine / January 2001

PAVE LOW AIRCRAFT TO DAVIS-MONTHAN PHOTOS

FINAL FLIGHT PHOTOS

21st SOS MISSION

36th RESCUE FLIGHT CREW MAKES TOUGHEST SAVE OF CAREERS

AIR FORCE HELICOPTER CREW RESCUES MAN INJURED IN WILDERNESS

MOODY AIRCRAFT CONDUCT CIVIL SEARCH AND RESCUE; RESCUE ONE INDIVIDUAL

21st SOS ENDS ITS LEGACY AS A HELICOPTER SPECIAL OPERATIONS UNIT 13 SEPTEMBER 2007

Det 2, 40th ARRW RAF UPPER-HEYFORD

THE H-21 ARRIVES AT BOLLING AFB

THE LAST H-21 HELICOPTERS DEPARTED EIELSON FOR ELMENDORF. THE HELICOPTERS HAD BEEN ASSIGNED SINCE 1956 AND WERE A PART OF THE 5040th HELICOPTER SQUADRON. THEY WERE REPLACED BY HH-3s

MH-53M PAVE LOW IV PREPARES TO STEP OFF OF THE FLIGHT LINE

RESCUE OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND GULF WAR

HORNETS STAY "SEMPER PARATUS" FOR PAST 30 YEARS

AIR FORCE HELICOPTERS SAVE MORE THAN 4,200 PEOPLE DURING KATRINA

76th HELICOPTER SQUADRON DEACTIVATES

36th RESCUE FLIGHT MAKES 614th RESCUE

606th AIR COMMANDO SQUADRON (ACS) AT NAKHON PHANOM

(PILOT INTERVIEW COURTESY OF THE TLCB)

40th HELICOPTER SQUADRON

57th ARS LAJES FIELD, AZORES

581ST ARC IN KOREA (Ensley Sisk from Blog)

Heritage of the Quiet Professional (AFSOC)

In November 1952, the 12th Air Rescue Group stationed the 81st, 82nd and 83rd Air Rescue Squadrons at Bordeaux, providing air/sea rescue service and practicing pilot recoveries at Lake Cazaux near Aracheon. The squadrons flew Sikorsky H-19B "Chickasaw" helicopters and Grumman SA-16 Albatross fixed wing amphibian seaplanes.

The 12th ARG departed Bordeaux AB in July, 1953.

Air Rescue Service established a tenure at Sembach with the arrival of the 12th ARG and the subordinate 81st ARS on 25 September 1953. The 12th ARG wound down operations and inactivated on 18 February, followed by the 81st ARS within a month.

Military Air Transport Service is redesignated Military Airlift Command. Air Rescue Service becomes Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service. Air Photographic and Charting Service is renamed Aerospace Audio-Visual Service.

H-5 helicopter aircrews from the 3rd Air Rescue Service recovered 148 paratrooper casualties in the second biggest paradrop of the Korean War. Despite intense mortar and ground fire, the crews flew 77 sorties in two days near Musan, North Korea.

Air Rescue Service aircrews flew 198 sorties in SA-16, H-19s, C-45s and C-82s through Feb. 17, to evacuate 161 persons and deliver 32,900 pounds of relief supplies during floods in the Netherlands.