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, is now on display at the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum in San Diego, California.
In popular culture.
On the afternoon of 29 April 1975, Hubert van Es, a Saigon-based photographer for United Press International, took the iconic photo of Operation Frequent Wind of an Air America UH-1 on a rooftop picking up Vietnamese evacuees. The building in the photo was the Pittman Apartment building at 22 Gia Long Street (now 22 Lý Tự Trọng Street), which was used as a residence by various embassy,
1975: Participated in Operation Frequent Wind, the evacuation of American personnel from Saigon, South Vietnam as the country fell to the communists.
- Aug–Sep 1976: Operated near the Korea Peninsula following the Axe murder incident.
- Nov–Dec 1979: In response to the seizure of the American Embassy and its staff, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, operated in the Arabian Sea.
- May–Jun 1980: Following the Kwangju Massacre in South Korea, "Midway" operated off the coast of