HS-4 Pilots

Lt. Joe Heye (l)
Lt. Bob Dorsey (r)  

On deck of the USS Yorktown off Vietnam  1965
Standing in front of "Tilly" the crane used to push burning airplanes off the flight deck, and for other purposes.
Most of the photographs by Lt. Bob Dorsey. 

Dorsey was elected to the USS Yorktown Board of Directors in 2000

 

 

SH3-A helos of HS-4 Squadron landing aboard USS Yorktown
Plane guard destroyer in position

 

 

Lt. Dorsey of HS-4 prepares for mission off coast of Viet Nam

 

 

SH3A in flight.  300 feet at 78 knots. 
Notice the orange reflection of the flight suits on the instrument panel glass

 

 

Yorktown replenishment  February 1965

 

 

HS-4 Helo (SH3-A) making a personnel transfer to a destroyer off the coast of Viet Nam
Picture: Notice that Yorktown is steaming in left hand side of picture, ahead of escort destroyer.

 

 

Waves created between the two ships as the unrep begins.  When the ships come a few feet together suddenly, the man on the highline rope dips suddenly closer to the waves!

 

High Line transfer  DD-11 to USS Yorktown

 

Operation "Candid Camera" on Yankee Station

Off the coast of Vietnam 1965




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