USMC // VMM-162
Ian Harding sits it out at Okehampton Army Camp in the UK’s Dartmoor National Park, as the United States Marine Corps makes a surprise visit




IT IS SELDOM that any significant military aviation event takes place nowadays without some prior knowledge in the public domain. But that’s just what happened during the morning of Saturday April 10, when two United States Marine Corps (USMC) Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallions appeared over England’s rugged southwest coast near the seaside town of Bude in Cornwall.