Casevac

In the late 1940s, helicopters were used in the casevac role by the British in Malaya.

I have done several night casevacs and they can be pretty hazardous.

Linde had been on his way to fetch a casevac from 32 Battalion at a place called Luenga, in the bush, 60 kilometres south of Menonque.

‘If there's anything wrong with the hospital′s radio — if we can′t get Whinger casevacked, for any reason — we can′t just leave him there. We′ll get what drugs we can for him, but we may have to bring him back for the time being.’

He had broken his leg on landing and was waiting to be collected at a later stage to be casevacked ...

There couldn't be many better than these—they were responsible for taking us out to be thrown into the wilderness by parachute, re-supply drops in the field, transporting vital supplies and for casevacking troops from operational areas.