En route for Hanoi after the fall of Dien Bien Phu. The French forces used 26 S-55 helicopters in Indochina from September 1953 - six HRS-1, seven HRS-3 and thirteen H-19B models. This should be BuNo 130232, ex US Marines - code VK is from call sign F-SDVK. Returned to the Americans in 1958, curiously receiving a newly created fiscal year 1952 USAF serial, 52-10991. Supplied to South Vietnam. Photo by: Jean Lussan / ECPAD

Sikorsky 130156 delivered to the USA Marine Corps on 11th August 1952 and modified to a HR-3 in 3rd July 1956. Seen here serving as HL-24 with the Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 362 at the Marine Corps Air Station, Santa Ana, probably between 1957 - 61. This frame spent some time at the Canadian Museum of Flight, see C-GMFY for details and later history.

144257 returns to helicopter deck of icebreaker USS Glacier, which was docked in Wellington. The icebreaker was a regular visitor to the city during the southern hemisphere summer. The helicopter crashed on February 12, 1959 following its return to Antarctica and was not repaired. Photo from: Evening Post / Alexander Turnbull Library

Flying over RNZAF Wigram. It was from the icebreaker USS Glacier. 144256 was finally withdrawn from use in 1967. Photo from: RNZAF/Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Based at NAF Oppama near Yokohama, Marine Helicopter Transport Squadron HMR-162 'Golden Eagles' traded its HRS-1 Chickasaws for twenty HRS-3s in 1956. The photo was probably taken in that year since the unit was redesignated HMR(L)-162 on 31 December 1956. Airframe delivered as a HRS-2 on 5 September 1952 and converted to HRS-3 in 1955. Struck off charge in 1967. To N17754. Registration cancelled in 1993.