USAF 42nd ARRSQ Patch

USAF 42nd Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron / Search and Rescue Coordination Patch

EXTREMELY hard to find patch! Circa 1961.

STATIONS

Hamilton AFB, CA

WEAPON SYSTEMS

HH-43

UH-1F

UH-1N

HONORS

Service Streamers

Campaign Streamers

Armed Forces Expeditionary Streamers

Decorations

OPERATIONS

DET 2 Cannon AFB, NM, activated 1 Jan 1970, HH-43 until Jan 1973, Inactivated 25 Apr 1973

DET 3 Kirtland AFB, NM, activated 30 Jun 1971, HH-43 until Apr 1973, Inactivated 07 Jun 1973

DET 5 Edwards AFB, CA, activated 1 Jan 1970, UH-1F, Inactivated 1 May 1973

DET 6 Holloman AFB, NM, activated 1 Jun 1971

DET 7 McChord AFB, WA, activated 1 Mar 1971, HH-43 until Dec 1972, Inactivated 24 May

1973

DET 12 George AFB, CA, activated 1 Jan 1970, HH-43 until Dec 1972, Inactivated 5 Apr 1973

DET 13 Reese AFB, TX, activated, 1 Jan 1970, HH-43 until Apr 1973 to 43 ARRS, 1 Jul 1971

DET 14 Nellis AFB, NV, activated, 1 Jan 1970, HH-43 until Mar 1973, Inactivated 29 May 1973

DET 15 Luke AFB, AZ, activated, 1 Jan 1970, HH-43 until Feb 1973, Inactivated 1 Jun 1973

DET 16 Williams AFB, AZ, activated 1 Jan 1970, HH-43 until, Jan 1973, Inactivated 28 Apr 1973

DET 17 Davis Monthan AFB, AZ, activated 1 JAN 1970, HH-43 until Feb 1973, Inactivated 2

May 1973

DET 18 Webb AFB, TX, activated 1 Jan 1970 to 43 ARRS, 1 Jul 1971

DET 22 Mountain Home AFB, ID, activated 1 Jan 1970, 1 May 1973 re-assigned to 43 ARRS

HH-43 until Aug 1973

DET 24 Fairchild AFB, WA, activated 1 Jan 1971, with UH-1N, Inactivated 15 Sep 1972

DET 25 Hill AFB, UT, activated 1 Mar 1971, HH-43, Inactivated 1 Apr 1971

USAF H-43/HH-43 Assignments

42nd ARRSq - WARC - Hamilton AFB, CA

Det. 4 Paine Field, WA; Keesler AFB, MS

Det. 5 McChord AFB, WA; Edwards AFB, CA 

Det. 9 Portland International Airport, OR

Near Mono Lake, California, Captain Richard H. Coan prepares to lift off aboard HH-43B-KA Huskie 60-0263, at dawn, 13 June 1962. (U.S. Air Force)

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