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601 Assault Helicopter Battalion

Argentine Army

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2023
Entity authorityQ4641616 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 601 Assault Helicopter Battalion (Spanish: Batallón de Helicópteros de Asalto 601) is a helicopter unit of the Argentine Army.

Description

This battalion is the main helicopter unit of the Argentine Army Aviation and is based at Campo de Mayo, Buenos Aires. The unit is composed by Bell UH-1H and Aerospatiale Puma helicopters. It is organised in two assault companies.

The battalion works closely with the infantry unit 601 Air Assault Regiment (Spanish: Regimiento de Asalto Aéreo 601), also based at Campo de Mayo.

History

The unit took part in the Falklands War in 1982 with its original name "601 Combat Aviation Battalion" (Batallón de Aviación de Combate 601).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “601 Assault Helicopter Battalion” is argentine Army. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Assault, Helicopter and Battalion, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1982—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970. For this dossier, Assault, Helicopter and Battalion is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 29, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q4641616. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1982.

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This entry incorporates text from “601 Assault Helicopter Battalion” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.