FEW PEOPLE HAD SEEN ONE in the fall of 1943 or would have known what it was if they had. The things weren't even called helicopters until 1948. But long before it got its name, the helicopter became part of an unconventional strategy to defeat the Japanese in Burma. Its first call to military service came when U.S. Army Air Forces Lieutenant Colonel John Alison went to Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio to find out what a helicopter could do.
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