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What a story! Just wild that so many helicopters were destroyed. But everyone on board the ship must have been so gratified that all five children survived.

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As the war was ending, a lot of of these choppers wouldn't have been required anymore and would have ended up in some graveyard anyway.

Fair point, but that hadn't yet been determined and the flight chief and captain were taking a severe career risk (rightly IMO) in making that call.

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