operation report information
for HMH-462
HMH-463
40 ARRS
For date 750412
HMH-462 was a US Marine Corps unit
HMH-463 was a US Marine Corps unit
40 ARRS was a US Air Force unit
Primary service involved, US Marine Corps
Operation EAGLE PULL
Cambodia
Location, Phnom Penh
Description: On the afternoon of the 11th, the 31st MAU/ARG received the execution order for EAGLE PULL with L-Hour at 0900 the next morning.
At 0700 twelve HMH-462 CH-53s launched from the USS Okinawa. At ten-minute intervals the aircraft came down to load a 360 man security force from the 2/4th Marines and their last drink of fuel. Two USAF C-130s provided C&C. The lead aircraft touched down in LZ Hotel at 0854. HMH-463 launched the first of four three-plane waves 25 minutes after the last HMH-462 aircraft were inbound. After learning that the last evacuees were on 462 helicopters, 463 went in to get the security force. At 1050 the first 107mm rockets started landing near the LZ. At 1057 the last of the security force was gone. At 1058 mortar fire was received and at 1115 two USAF 40th ARRS HH-53s extracted the last of the command element. The entire operation that had taken two years in planning, took two hours and 23 minutes to execute.
Comments: LTC Bolton; HMH-462 CO; ;
The source for this information was The Marines in Vietnam Anthology P:213
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