In the early days of the Vietnam war the US Navy used the HH-3A Sea King with a minigun in de door and two
.50 MG’s from the leftside windows.
(sources: http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/16/p/82613/1473270.aspx
http://www.helis.com/database/cn/21393/)
About waterlanding of the S-61. Many years ago, when KLM Helicopter still used to fly, I remember an
occasion that a S-61N returning to Schiphol Airport had landing gear problems. After hovering very low about 1 meter from the ground
the passengers got of the helo which then flew to the nearby canal to make a landing there.
Waterlanding were practised regulary by the KLM S-61N pilots on a lake not very far from Schiphol Airport.
from wikipedia: On 24 December 1972, during the same bombing campaign, the B-52 Stratofortress “Diamond Lil”, now on display at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado, was attacking the railroad yards at Thai Nguyen. Rising for the interception was another NVAF MiG-21, Diamond Lil’s tailgunner, Airman Albert E. Moore locked onto the MiG at 4,000 yards,[4] and opened fire with his quad .50 caliber machine guns. Moore’s kill was witnessed by another B-52 tailgunner, TSGT Clarence W. Chute, who observed the MiG-21 to fall away on fire. Moore was the last bomber tail gunner to shoot down an enemy aircraft with machine guns during war time.
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