Officially Licensed USMC HMH-361 Flying Tigers Leather Patch Front Toward Enemy Screaming Eagles — VF-51

Screaming Eagles — VF-51

The 3rd LAAM Battalion provided the ground-based air defense that protected 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing assets and the I Marine Expeditionary Force from low-altitude air attack

and deliver paratroopers and equipment to austere airstrips across the globe

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Officially Licensed USMC HMH-361 Flying Tigers Leather Patch Front Toward Enemy Screaming Eagles — VF-51Officially Licensed USMC HMH 361 Flying Tigers Leather Patch Heavy Lift Since '52 If it's too heavy for anyone else, the Flying Tigers will carry it. HMH 361 was commissioned on February 25, 1952, at MCAS Santa Ana as the Marine Corps' heavy lift pioneers. The Flying Tigers earned their first combat deployment to Vietnam as one of the first helicopter units in country during Operation Shufly, where their CO earned Marine Aviator of the Year honors for