The BuNo is not fully readable but we believe this can only be 124594, from a first batch of seven HUP-1 Retrievers delivered to the US Navy from February 1949. Still with HU-2, this airframe was lost on 22 May 1953 in a crash landing south of Ocean City, Maryland, following engine failure. The photo was circulated by the Diamond Chain Company in Indianapolis which supplied chains to Piasecki. Photo from: Indiana Historical Society / Piasecki

Scrapped in 1963

A US Navy HO4S-3 helicopter at the Little America V base in 1956. It was flown by Cdr Waldron. Photo by: Jim Waldron / United States Antarctic Program

Operation Deep Freeze II. The helicopter operated from the icebreaker USS Glacier but this appears to be a another ship. Date given as February 1957 but 138595 crashed into the Ross Sea when its engine failed on 19 January. The two pilots survived. Photo by: Albert Fenn / Life

Active aboard light cruiser USS Northampton at this time and in 1975 it was registered as N91327 and cancelled as expired on 31 March 2011.

Flying over RNZAF Wigram. It was from the icebreaker USS Glacier. 144256 was finally withdrawn from use in 1967. Photo from: RNZAF/Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Now restored and on display at the USS Intrepid Museum in New York, NY.

Unfortunately it is a picture of just half a HUP-2. It was on board USS Wasp (CVS 18) flag ship of Task Group Bravo in the early sixties.

Delivering the mail to the cruiser USS Salem. Note the enormous North American AJ-2 Savage of VAH-7 on the deck of the carrier USS Lake Champlain. Photo from: Naval History and Heritage Command

On the deck of the aircraft carrier Saratoga. HU-2 maintained a number of HUP-2 detachments aboard carriers. Photo from: US Navy - National Naval Aviation Museum