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US Marine Corps - Marine Heavy
Helicopter Squadron 463 HMH-463 'Pegasus' |
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 deactivation ceremony at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - April 21, 2022  cutout  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - February 2022  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - February 2022  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - February 2022  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - January 2022  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - January 2022  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - January 2022  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - January 2022  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - December 2021  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - November 2021  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - September 2021  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - September 2021  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - August 2021  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - August 2021  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - August 2021  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - May 2021  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - May 2021  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - May 2021  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - May 2021  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) ready to be loaded int an USAF C-17 Globemaster at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - March 2021  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - December 2020  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - December 2020  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - December 2020  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - September 2020  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - August 2020  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) - Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii - July 2020  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) - Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii - July 2020  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) - Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii - July 2020  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - June 2020  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - June 2020  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - May 2020  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - May 2020  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - August 2019  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - June 2019  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) - Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii - October 2018  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) - Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii - October 2018  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - October 2018  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - October 2018  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at Marine Corps Training Area Bellows, Hawaii - September 2018  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) - aerial refueling off Hawaii - Exercise RIMPAC 18 - July 2018  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) aboard HMAS Adelaide (L 01) - Exercise RIMPAC 18 - July 2018  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - July 2018  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - July 2018  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - July 2018  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - May 2018  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - January 2018  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) - change of command ceremony at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - December 2017  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - December 2017  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - December 2017  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) - off Hawaii - October 2017  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) - Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii - September 2017  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) - Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii - September 2017  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - July 2017  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - July 2017  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - July 2017  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - April 2017  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - March 2017  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - March 2017  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) aboard USS America (LHA 6) - Exercise RIMPAC 16 - July 2016  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) aboard USS America (LHA 6) - Exercise RIMPAC 16 - July 2016  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) aboard USS America (LHA 6) - Exercise RIMPAC 16 - July 2016  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) aboard USS America (LHA 6) - Exercise RIMPAC 16 - July 2016  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - July 2016  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) off Oahu, Hawaii - May 2016  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - April 2016  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - April 2016  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) - off Honolulu, Hawaii - April 2016  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) - off Honolulu, Hawaii - April 2016  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) - Marine Rotational Force - Darwin (MRF-D), Australia - August 2015  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) - Marine Rotational Force - Darwin (MRF-D), Australia - August 2015  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) - Marine Rotational Force - Darwin (MRF-D), Australia - August 2015  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) - Marine Rotational Force - Darwin (MRF-D), Australia - June 2015  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) - Marine Rotational Force - Darwin (MRF-D), Australia - June 2015  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) - Marine Rotational Force - Darwin (MRF-D), Australia - June 2015  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) - Marine Rotational Force - Darwin (MRF-D), Australia - June 2015  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - May 2015  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - March 2015  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) - Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii - January 2015  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - September 2014  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) lifting an A-4 Skyhawk at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - September 2014  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) lifting an A-4 Skyhawk at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - September 2014  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) embarked on USS Peleliu (LHA 5) - Exercise RIMPAC 14 - July 2014  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - July 2014  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - May 2014  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - March 2014  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - March 2014  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) - Hawaii - January 2014  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - August 2013  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - March 2013  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - March 2013  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - September 2012  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - July 2012  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - July 2012  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) at MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay - July 2012  CH-53E Super Stallion (HMH-463) embarked on USS Essex (LHD 2) - Exercise RIMPAC 12 - July 2012  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan - May 2011  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan - May 2011  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan - May 2011  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan - May 2011  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) - Helmand Province, Afghanistan - May 2011  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) - Maui, Hawaii - January 2011  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) - Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii - Exercise RIMPAC - July 2010  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) - Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii - Exercise RIMPAC - July 2010  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) aboard USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) - Exercise RIMPAC - July 2010  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) - Exercise Foal Eagle - Republic of Korea - March 2008  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) - Iraq - September 2006  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq - June 2006  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq - June 2006  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq - April 2006  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq - April 2006  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) - Clark Airport, Philippines - December 2004  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) - Philippines - February 2003  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) - Philippines - February 2003  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) - Philippines - February 2003  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) - Philippines - February 2003  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) - Philippines - February 2003  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) - Philippines - February 2003  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) - Osan, Republic of Korea - November 2002  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) - Osan, Republic of Korea - November 2002  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) - Osan, Republic of Korea - November 2002  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) - Osan, Republic of Korea - November 2002  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) at MCAS Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii - July 2001  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) during Operation Desert Shield - October 1990  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) aboard USS Tarawa (LHA 1) - December 1986  CH-53D Sea Stallion (HMH-463) at MCAS Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii - July 1982  CH-53D Sea Stallions (HMH-463) aboard USS Hancock (CV 19) - Operation Eagle Pull - off Cambodia - April 1975  CH-53A Sea Stallion (HMH-463) - Vietnam War - 1971  CH-53A Sea Stallion (HMH-463) - Vietnam War - September 1968  CH-53A Sea Stallion (HMH-463) - Vietnam War - November 1967  CH-53A Sea Stallion (HMH-463) lifts an UH-34D Seahorse from HMM-263 aboard USS Tripoli (LPH 10) - June 1967 |
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The squadron was originally activated as Marine Bombing Squadron 463
(VMB-463), a fixed-wing bombing squadron, on 20 July 1944 at Marine
Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina and assigned to
Marine Aircraft Group 62, 9th Marine Aircraft Wing. In November
1944, the squadron was reassigned to Marine Aircraft Group 34. The
following February, the squadron was reassigned to Marine
Operational Training Group 81 only to be decommissioned on 28 July
1945. On 15 July 1945, the squadron was reactivated at Marine Corps
Air Station Santa Barbara, California as Marine Torpedo Bombing
Squadron 463 (VMTB-463) and assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 51.
The following year, on 20 March 1946, the squadron was once again
decommissioned and would remain so until 1958. The squadron was
reactivated on 1 September 1958 at Marine Corps Air Station Santa
Ana, California as Marine Helicopter Transport Squadron 463 and
assigned to Marine Air Group 36, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing and then
decommissioned again less than a year later on 30 June 1959. Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 463 was reactivated on 1 March 1966 at MCAS Santa Ana and assigned to Marine Wing Support Group 37, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing flying the CH-53 Sea Stallion airframe. A four-plane detachment from HMH-463 deployed to Marble Mountain Air Facility, South Vietnam in December 1966. HMH-463 was reassigned to Marine Aircraft Group 16. The remainder of the squadron would deploy during May 1967 to Marble Mountain where they participated in combat operations during the Vietnam War for the next four years. On 8 January 1968, CH-53A #65-100 crashed in the Hai Lang Forest south of Dong Ha Combat Base, killing all 46 personnel on board. One of the more different flights taken by the squadron occurred in 1968 when they participated in Operation Bahroom. This entailed delivering an elephant via helicopter from the airstrip at Chu Lai Air Base to the Special Forces camp at Tra Bong to work at a local saw mill. 1970 saw the squadron start to delve into bombing missions or what they termed "barrel bombing." During this time they would fly 2 - 4 ship flights at low altitude to draw enemy fire. Once they encountered enemy contact they would then fly over the area again and drop 55 gallon drums of gasoline and napalm that were sling-loaded to the bottom of the aircraft. Usually the force of impact would ignite the barrel mixture but they would occasionally need machine gun fire from the helicopter door guns or rockets from an OV-10 Bronco or AH-1 Cobra. On a mission over "Charlie Ridge" just west of Danang the squadron dropped over 400 tons of the fuel mixture against entrenched North Vietnamese Army positions. After the Vietnam War, HMH-463 relocated to Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii in May 1971 and was reassigned to Marine Aircraft Group 24, 1st Marine Brigade. In 1973, HMH-463 returned to Vietnam and participated in Operation End Sweep, the minesweeping operations in the Haiphong/Hon Gai Area of North Vietnam from February through July. On 26 March 1975, HMH-463 embarked on the USS Hancock at Pearl Harbor and the Hancock proceeded to Subic Bay and then on station in the Gulf of Thailand. On 12 April 1975, the squadron participated in Operation Eagle Pull, the evacuation of Phnom Penh and 17 days later it participated in Operation Frequent Wind, the evacuation of Saigon. For its efforts during the US evacuation of South Vietnam, HMH-463 was awarded the "Outstanding Helicopter Squadron of the Year" award by the Marine Corps Aviation Association in 1975. In August 1990, HMH-463 deployed to Saudi Arabia to take part in Operation Desert Shield. The squadron remained in Southwest Asia to participate in Operation Desert Storm before returning to MCAF Kaneohe Bay in March 1991. In March 2006, HMH-463 deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), making it the first individual CH-53D unit to be deployed to Iraq, but not the first CH-53D to enter the country for OIF/OEF. The squadron returned to MCAF Kaneohe Bay in October 2006. On August 2009, HMH 463 deployed to the Helmand Province, Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. By the end of 2011, HMH-463 had retired all of its CH-53D helicopters. The unit completed the transition to the CH-53E in 2012. On 14 January 2016 twelve Hawaii Marines were killed when two CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters collided off of the North Shore (Oahu). HMH-463 was decommissioned on 22 April 2022 during a ceremony held at MCAS Kaneohe Bay, HI. The squadron's stand down was part of a restructure of Marine Corps forces in Hawaii as part of the Commandant of the Marine Corps Force Design 2030 initiative. source: wikipedia |
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