* The Individual Aircraft History Card gives as loss-date 1 AUG 1965.
                              However, a AFHRA document confirms 2 JUN 1965 :
                              mission DET.5-PARC-313-2 Jun 65 :

                                             At 1904 hours on 2 June 65, tower operators at Da Nang Airport, VN alerted DET.5
                                             helicopter crews, via the crash telephone, to the crash of a Marine Corps O-1E
                                             ten miles north of the airport at 16-11N, 108-08E where it was burning on the
                                             mountainside. Three minutes later HH-43F helicopters 63-9713 (Rescue 95) and
                                             63-9714 (Rescue 96) were airborne and enroute to the crash site. Arriving on the
                                             scene at 1915 hours, a pararescueman was lowered from '9713 after which the pilot
                                             attempted to suppress the O-1E fire with rotor wash. At this point in time, the
                                             pilot and others heard a sharp and loud explosive noise, repeated several times,
                                             similar to that of a .45 caliber pistol shot. Immediately, a gradual deterioration
                                             of fore and aft cyclic control, cyclic roughness, and ineffectual pitch control
                                             was experienced by the pilot. The pilot was unable to prevent the helicopter from
                                             pitching forward and descending to the forested hillside, where the left rotorhead
                                             struck a tree before the helicopter contacted the ground in the hostile area at
                                             1925 hours.
                                             The other HH-43F '9714 immediately hovered over the crashed helicopter and the
                                             pararescueman was lowered in the hoist sling to investigate the condition of the
                                             pilot and crew of two (a mechanic and the pararescueman). These two were in shock
                                             but the pilot was believed to have only minor injuries. Rescue 96 could only move
                                             two extra persons because of the maximum gross weight limit and the pilot decided
                                             to return later for the crashed pilot. Rescue 96 arrived back at the crash site at
                                             1935 hours and delivered the pilot of '9713 into the hands of the hospital personnel
                                             at 1950 hours, thereby terminating this mission.
                                              Later, an examination of the downed Huskie revealed that rotors, tailbooms, the
                                              right main and nose gears, and the right side of the fuselage had suffered major
                                              damage. Those parts which were salvagable were recovered and the remainder of the
                                               craft was destroyed by explosives.