Naval Air Station Glenview
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 102 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5112-3760-2
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Naval Air Station Glenview or NAS Glenview was an operational U.S. Naval Air Station from 1923 to 1995. Located in Glenview, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, the air base primarily operated seaplanes on nearby Lake Michigan, and later, P-3 Orions, stationed there as a staging point for Anti-submarine warfare against Soviet submarines. Before its closure, the base was also used as a staging area and departure point for aircraft participating in the annual Chicago Air Water Show. In 1959 the Marine Corps established the Helicopter Squadron HMR-776 with the HUP-2 Helicopters. The squadron was redesignated to HMM-776 in 1962 and changed aircraft to the CH-34D. In 1972 the squadron was redesignated for the last time to HML-776 and changed aircraft to the UH-1E which was eventually upgraded to the UH-1N. This unit was deployed in 1991 in support of Desert Storm and returned 10 months later. The squadron was deactivated in 1994. This was also the...
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