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Description: Piasecki HRP helicopters, which owing to their appearance were nicknamed “Flying Bananas,” were primitive designs with their fabric-covered fuselages. Yet, it was upon their rotary wings that the Marine Corps developed the tactic of vertical envelopment, which introduced the helicopter to the battlefield.
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