this is from the Dec 2008 issue of Flight Journal Magazine:
this past April the USAF retired a Sikorsky MH-53M Pave Low serial 68-10357 after 38 years of service. that particular helicopter was purchased in 1968 as a HH-53C by the USAF in 1967 after evaluating the USMC's CH-53Cs. 68-10357 took part in the failed raids on POW camps in Song Tay, flying well behind enemy lines into Vietnam to attept to resuce american POWs. the helicopter was upgraded to HH-53H Pave Low II standards following the Vietnam war, upgraded again to MH-53J Pave Low III standards in 1987 and finally to a MH-53M Pave Low IV in 1990. the helicopter flew it's final combat mission in iraq on 28 March and will be retired to the USAF museum in Dayton, OH.
the remainder of the fleet was retired on 1 October and the AFSOC is trasitioning to the CV-22.
there are no pix of 68-10357 on a.net, pictures is another MH-53M
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