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Santa Gets a LIft

The good girls and boys of the Coast Guard Air Station Brooklyn get a visit from Santa, December 1944. Santa's getting a lift on a Coast Guard HNS-1, the naval version of the Sikorsky R-4, the first helicopter to see active service with the U.S. armed forces.

Image Number: NASM-2A49392
Credit: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
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