1-30 April 1969 Marble Mountain Air Facility, DaNang, Republic of Vietnam
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1-5 Apr 69:  HMM-364 flew 778 sorties for 190.7 flight hours, lifting 96.5 tons of cargo, 1,533 troops/passengers and expended 600 rounds of .50 caliber ordnance.  Forty-nine medevac missions carried 37 Emergency, 51 Priority and 27 Routine evacuees in support of the following Operations and Units: Oklahoma Hills, Victory Dragon, 1st MARDIV, MAG-16 and HMM-364.  Five enemy fire incidents were reported with no aircraft receiving hits.

6-10 Apr 69:  HMM-364 flew 865 sorties for 220.6 flight hours, lifting 126.9 tons of cargo, 1,545 troops/passengers and expended 450 rounds of .50 caliber ordnance.  Thirty-nine medevac missions carried 21 Emergency, 76 Priority and 67 Routine evacuees in support of the following Operations and Units: Oklahoma Hills, Victory Dragon, 1st MARDIV, MAG-16 and HMM-364.  Five fire incidents were reported with the following aircraft receiving hits; YK-3 one hit, YK-1 one hit, YK-9 two hits with one WIA and YK-10 two hits.

11 Apr 69:  HMM-364 flew 89 sorties for 34.8 flight hours, lifting 7.8 tons of cargo and 34 troops/passengers. Eleven medevac missions carried 19 Emergency, 10 Priority and 4 Routine evacuees in support of the following Operations and Units:  Oklahoma Hills, 1st MARDIV, MAG-16 and HMM-364.  Four enemy fire incidents were reported with no aircraft receiving hits.  YK-16 broke up in flight, crashed with 4 KIA.

12-13 Apr 69:  HMM-364 flew 255 sorties for 77.0 flight hours, lifting 49.3 tons of cargo, 132 troops/passengers and expending 300 rounds of .50 caliber ordnance.  Twenty medevac missions carried 19 Emergency, 24 Priority and 5 Routine evacuees in support of the following Operations and Units:  Oklahoma Hills, Victory Dragon, 1st MARDIV, MAG-16 and HMM-364.  Six enemy fire incidents were reported with YK-12 7/8 receiving 3 hits.

14 Apr 69:  HMM-364 flew 100 sorties for 30.5 flight hours, lifting 15.2 tons of cargo, 161 troops/passengers and expending 950 rounds of .50 caliber ordnance.  Fourteen medevac missions carried 15 Emergency, 6 Priority and 3 Routine evacuees in support of the following Units: 1st MARDIV, MAG-16 and HMM-364.  Seven enemy fire incidents were reported with YK-2 receiving one hit, YK-4 several hits and YK-5 being shot down with 3 KIA and 3 WIA.

15-20 Apr 69:  HMM-364 flew 792 sorties for 307.8 flight hours, lifting 135.1 tons of cargo, 961 troops/passengers and expended 520 rounds of .50 caliber ordnance.  Fifty-nine medevac missions carried 48 Emergency, 44 Priority and 48 Routine evacuees in support of the following Operations and Units:  Oklahoma Hills, Victory Dragon, 1st MARDIV, MAG-16 and HMM-364.  Eight enemy fire incidents were reported with YK-15 receiving two hits.

21-25 Apr 69:  HMM-364 flew 562 sorties for 174.0 flight hours, lifting 48.8 tons of cargo, 726 troops/passengers and expending 1,406 rounds of .50 caliber ordnance.  Forty-eight medevac missions carried 59 Emergency, 31 Priority and 44 Routine evacuees while expending 2,250 rounds of .50 caliber ordnance in support of the following Operation and Units:  Oklahoma Hills, 1st MARDIV, MAG-16 and HMM-364.  Nine enemy fire incidents were reported with YK-20 and YK-19 each receiving two hits and YK-4 several hits.

26-30 Apr 69:  HMM-364 flew 574 sorties for 169.2 flight hours, lifting 34.5 tons of cargo, 895 troops/passengers and expended 1,575 rounds of .50 caliber ordnance.  Eighty-three medevac missions carried 51 Emergency, 33 Priority and 84 Routine  evacuees in support of the following Operation and Units:  Oklahoma Hills, 1st MARDIV, MAG-16 and HMM-364.  Eleven enemy fire incidents were reported with YK-2 receiving one hit.

To recap the month of April, HMM-364 flew 4,017 sorties for 1,109.3 flight hours during the period with an average availability of 8 aircraft, lifting 6,117 troops/passengers and 515.1 tons of cargo.  269 medevac missions evacuated a total of 806 evacuees of which 269 were Emergency, 255 Priority and 282 Routine.  A total of 5,801 rounds of .50 caliber ammunition was expended.

During this period there were 40 incidents of hostile fire directed against squadron aircraft which resulted in 16 aircraft being hit.

The following Squadron aircraft received battle damage during the period 1-30 April 1969:

153347, 153397, 153349, 154794, 154797, 153952, 153368, 154790, 153368, 153369, 153347 and 153952.