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Dustoff / Medevac: Still Images
The images listed below are photographs from individual soldiers, military photographers and others who have donated their photographs to the Vietnam Archive. The photographs for the most part are from the Vietnam War era and can be a good tool for visualizing the events of the war related through our documents or oral history interviews.
Please note that these images are only a sampling of the ones available from the Vietnam Archive. To find more use the advanced search module and the keywords suggested on the introductory page, narrow the media type to images in the right hand gray colored menu, click start search, then display search results and the database will display all of our Dustoff / Medevac photographs.
Click on the item number to view the complete record for the image or click on the thumbnail to view a larger image.
Item #: VA002111 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- THE CLOSEST AIR SUPPORT Pilots from the 3rd TFW pride themselves in beig the "closest air support unit" in Vietnam. Accurately-delivered air strikes such as the one above in support of the 199th Light Infantry Brigade proves their slogan to be more than just words. (USA PHOTO) (open complete record)
Item #: VA006790 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Dust-off between rubber plantation and NR 13 (open complete record)
Item #: VA020855 - Brigadier General Edwin H. Simmons Collection
- (022) The Face of War- Corporal Larry R. Miklos, center, and an unidentified corpsman look in horror as an enemy machine gun fires at the medevac helicopter in which he is riding. Miklos, an artillery forward observer, was wounded during an enemy ambush while on a search and destroy mission south o... (open complete record)
Item #: VA029717 - Robert Lafoon Collection (Department of the Army Special Photographic Office (DASPO))
- In a secured area on the outskirts of Saigon, medics and members of an Aviation Medical Evacuation Unit practice airlifting a soldier from the ground, up into a Huey using a cable hoist, and then fly to a local medical facility. Speed and technique were graded and all concerned received a thumbs-up.... (open complete record)
Item #: VA029718 - Robert Lafoon Collection (Department of the Army Special Photographic Office (DASPO))
- In a secured area on the outskirts of Saigon, medics and members of an Aviation Medical Evacuation Unit practice airlifting a soldier from the ground, up into a Huey using a cable hoist, and then fly to a local medical facility. Speed and technique were graded and all concerned received a thumbs-up.... (open complete record)
Item #: VA035803 - James Evans Collection (Americal Division Veterans Association)
- Colonel Buesseler, M.C., by MEDEVAC helicopter, Kham Duc, Vietnam.
Colonel Buessler was later Dean of the medical school at Lubbock. Man in the right background was a MEDEVAC medic, Harold Cornell Gay who was killed in a helicopter crash 20 October 1970. Photograph taken by Captain James... (open complete record)
Item #: VA042547 - James Evans Collection (Americal Division Veterans Association)
- Unloading patients from medevac helicopter at 91st Evacuation Hospital Emergency room (open complete record)
Item #: VA042548 - James Evans Collection (Americal Division Veterans Association)
- Medevac helicopter in for landing at 91st Evacuation Hospital Emergency Room. (open complete record)
Item #: VAS027296 - Robert F. Szul Collection
- Dustoff - Pleiku (open complete record)
Item #: VAS034298 - Jan Churchill Collection
- 498 Dustoff at Duc Pho (open complete record)
Item #: VAS036703 - James Evans Collection (Americal Division Veterans Association)
- Medevac helicopter coming in for landing on landing pad adjacent to Emergency Room, 91st Evacuation Hospital. (open complete record)
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