MASH Actual Korean War film - Army H-13 helicopters at Mobile Army Surgery Hospital
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- The unforgettable opening scenes of the long-running MASH television series showed Bell H-13 helicopters arriving at a Mobile Army Surgery Hospital somewhere in Korea during that war. From the National Archives, here is rare footage of an actual MASH unit in Korea in 1952. The similarities are striking. Watching this archived film of soldiers being medevaced to safety is one more reason to honor the veterans of that conflict.
The Army called this helicopter the H-13. In civilian life, it is the Bell 47. Several 47s fly around the huge Wittman Field aircraft parking area during EAA AirVenture at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Rides may be purchased, as seen in this video from the 2021 event at the end of this program. There's also a surprise Hollywood helicopter at the end -- don't miss it!
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This part of the Korean War is completely unheralded...a pity as so much was learned on the 'golden hour' and is with us today due to these amazingly heroic pilots. I know, my father Jerome J. Pohlen flew in one of the first four squadrons sent over. The H-13 wasn't the first but is the most famous due to the MASH TV series. The first ones flew two, one pilot and one medical personnel. He flew the "Dumbos" too, plucking pilots out of the ocean. He never ever spoke about his two purple hearts until he told the whole story to my daughter when he was 82 years old for the National Archives project for Korean Veterans. Apparently he was hit by ground fire leaving a frozen lake, went up through the belly of the chopper, through the seat and into his backside. Upon getting to the MASH unit, they had to pry him off the seat as the metal had splintered into his gluts but didn't penetrate completely. The second one, he said didn't count, as pieces of the plexiglass windshield blew up, again from ground fire and cut his face and shoulders. I started to tear up as I stood in the kitchen some 20 feet away as he told the story to his grand-daughter.
And for some of you who may not believe that there was a "Swamp" from the TV series...there was! I have a picture of my dad in front of the tent, with the Swamp written above the entrance to the doctor's tent. I have over one hundred Korean War photos he took. He didn't think anyone would want to see them. He has since past away...August 2020. He went on to fly in Vietnam, F100s...the love of his life. I sat in every plane he every flew. So proud... and now, I know why he never ever ate green beans or bananas. Forbid my Mom even to make them.
Thank you for posting this, hope more folks do. He was the second phase of the Greatest Generation.
Thank you so much for adding your family history. Very interesting. And good to salute your father and his generation.
Great stories.
Would enjoy seeing pictures of your father, and the Swamp. If you could watermark them with your name, so nobody could claim them, maybe you could post a few. Either way, thank you for sharing your story!
Amazing footage. The Korean War is a treasure trove of stories just waiting to be told.
So true. Thanks for watching.
Thank you once again Mr. Johnsen for bringing attention to these forgotten heroes! God bless you and yours always. And thanks again for all you do! 👍🇺🇸😊
You are very welcome
An helicopter so friendly with its pilots!
Thanks for posting this. My father flew H-13 Med Evac helicopters in Korea and was called on again 15 years later flying UH1 Med Evac ships in Viet Nam from 67-68. 283rd Dust Off out of Pleiku. They really had it bad during the Tet offensive. He managed to make it back but it took a toll on him. LTC William N. Insley, my dad and my hero.
Thank you for adding that tribute to your father, and thank you for watching.
@Scott Thanks so much for your service Scott.
Your right about the thousands.
in one year out of Pleiku he brought home 1562 wounded.
Post war he helped establish USABAAR (United States Army Board of Aviation Accident Research) at Fort Rucker Alabama.
After his service he became an educator teaching air crash investigation and aircraft safety management at USC.
I wanted to fly Medevac in Vietnam, but my dad nixed it. Dad was a colonel and I was just a 19 y/o WO1. Medevacs had high loss rates. One was because they often flew at night and bad weather. The other was was the bad guys who thought any helicopter was bad to them.
I flew Huey slicks in Vietnam but went to the Medevac course at Fort Sam Houston when I got back and flew non-combat Medevac in Hawaii. Ended up in Chinooks which have an ambulance kit ad can carry 24 litters. I retired as a CW4 in 1989.
Salute yo your dad.......
Thank you for posting this footage. As television was in it's infancy in the early 1950's, there isn't much footage of the Korean war.
You are every welcome. Thank you for watching.
I had a second cousin that served as a Nurse in WWII in Europe and in Korea .
These guys were amazing.
They got shot at continuously, and the H13s were fragile compared to the vietnam models.😢
My. Uncle. Was. In. The. Korean. War. This. Is. Why. We. Souid. Never. Fight. In wars. No body. Wins. In. Wat
Wars are absolutely essential to protect humanity from attackers, murderers, enslavers.
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Gandhis never survive before PolPots.
Neither non-violence before violence.
George Orwell said that
if at night we sleep safe & sound without fear of malevolent men of violence,
it's because other men of violence keep the malevolent men of violence at bay.
Otherwise = death camps & gulags.
@@waterheaterservices Do you realize how ironic this is
You wrote ''The similarities are striking.''
And they stopped there, between the reality and this vile ''mash'' tv series,
which is an insult to the blood spilled by the American fighting men of Korea
and their frontline medical service.
Hollywood mocks us
This biggest problem with the show mash, was it was just at the end of Vietnam so the creators and producers were sending their antiwar stuff through it. Big shame indeed
This reminds me of my time in Korea in the early 80s. Bitterly cold in the winter and very hot and humid in the summer.
This was a great find in your searches. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed the film. Yup -- my first TDY in Korea was Jan 82 -- the bitterly cold part!
My father was evacuated by a mash unit.. when he was wounded, at least twice, he was a marine raider
My wife’s grandfather was Lt Joseph L Bowler
He was a true american hero along with all the other pilots
What they did during the korean war is unbelievable
Thanks for watching and remembering Lt. Joseph L. Bowler. Always good to hear from the families of veterans of the topics covered in these films.
Must have been H-13C as the D-models did not arrive until 1953. The A/B/C models had only 175 HP Franklin engines while the D-model had 220 HP engines. Near the end of the video, it showed a D-model which was the last of the small bubbles as the E-models had larger bubbles and seats for Three.
My step dad was in Korea..he was in first calvery....was shot twice ...I heard him mention ...best hospital ever....
Thanks for watching, and a tip of the hat to your step dad. Always good to remember the veterans who served.
@@airailimages absolutely 💯
Oh, and early helicopters had wooden blades too. I never flew one, but wooden rotor blades seem spooky to me
My aunt served in a MASH unit in Korea as an RN , then spent the next 25 yrs working in the VA system. She never talked about it. I wished i would have asked but i was in high school when she died. My mom , my other aunt and myself are all RNs, i would go if needed.
Wow! What a family of RNs! I imagine all who watch this channel, including me, owe a lot to RNs over the course of our lives.
Thank you for your service and thank you for your sacrifices. May you rest in peace😢
Watching with tears in my eyes ...😢 .. what a waste of young lives ... Thank you to all veterans , MASH doctors and nurses . Thank you Alan Alda
Great images thank you SO VERY VERY MUCH!!
Glad you enjoyed it
How incredible to think that in less than 50 years, we went from a primitive wooden flying structure, as used by the Wrights, to such a versatile vehicle a this, and in just a few more years, space flight.
Yes, I marvel at that progression too. Thanks for watching and commenting.
H-13s hid not become OH-13 until 1962. The original Hueys where HU-1A also until 1962 when they became UH-1As.
The show MASH showed a sense of urgency that is not really shown in these videos.
The music sounds like it could be from Runescape
Awesome old whirlybird......rings a bell
❤ Love and prayers
Always wondered why MASH Bell 47's did not have the twin fuel tanks any information would be welcome.
Those particular helicopters were bell 47d1 helicopters, the twin fuel tanks were on the bell 47g series helicopters
I got one of these, haven't seen it since Korea... Searchlight, missles, pressurized cockpit... in case of nerve agents
Wow, great footage.
Glad you enjoyed it
the contemptible fiction tv series MASH is a shameful insult to the American fighting men in Korea.
It sure was..it was a defently left wing propaganda show..even the creator said that we use Vietnam clothing because it was during the Vietnam War when this was being filmed..not once not once they thanked the Doctors and nurses in closing credits..during the run..they didn't have to be patriotic but the hate America dialogue was disgusting
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One American born in the early 50s told me that as a teen,
the only thing he knew about the Korean War was this vile and accursed series.
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They had been head-stuffed (one step behind brainwashed)
with American-bashing propaganda that they thought at 1st cool & harmless.
(that's the weakness of free societies, it dulls your sense of duty)
& then continued onto America-hating, that's the hatred of everything American,
especially the Good That America Had Done for them, while cynically enjoying it.
& then moved on to America-destroying, using the Good America Had Given them.
It would of ben nice..and noble during the closing credits of the series finally. Of service men and woman thanking the Doctors and Nurses for there heroic
Duty..you see this show had nothing to do with the Korean War it was just one propaganda machine..ALAN ALDA..
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I saw the guy 1st in "The Mephisto Waltz".
But later I hated him absolutely for his part in this filth.
To be thankful to others is not part
of these calumniators' mentality.