(Frank Ermence/Stars and Stripes)

South Korea, August 1958: Trixie has some tricks up her paw as she seems to pilot the H-13 Sioux helicopter of the 6th Transport Company (Helicopter), but it’s actually the photographer’s trick angle that makes the actual pilot, Chief Warrant Officer Charles C. Baldwin disappear. Trixie, the 6th Transport Company (Helicopter) German shepherd, was stationed with the company at Pyong-Taek, where she got about four hours aloft daily.

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