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Casualty Info
Home Town Portland
Last Address Portland
Casualty Date Feb 08, 1968
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Land
Location Dinh Tuong (Vietnam)
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Oregon Vietnam Veterans Living Memorial - Portland, Oregon
Note from Page Admin: According to several sources, the 135th AHC was attached to the 10th Combat Aviation BN, 12 Aviation Group at the time of the below documented loss.
However, according to the 135th AHC Unit History, on file with the Vietnam Helicopter Pilot's Assoc. website, this unit was attached to the 222nd Aviation BN during 1968. That Unit History is uploaded on the opposite page of this profile.
Information on U.S. Army helicopter UH-1D tail number 66-01128
Incident number: 68020818.KIA
Original source(s) and document(s) from which the incident was created or updated:
Defense Intelligence Agency Helicopter Loss database.
Also: OPERA (Operations Report. )
Crew Members:
AC CPT FLEER ROBERT DEAN KIA P WO1 MOORE GLENN DOUGLAS KIA CE PFC LABUDA ROBERT ALAN KIA (Note: CE = Crew Chief) G SP4 CAVANAUGH RICHARD FRED KIA (Note: G = Gunner)
War Story:
The crash was caused by heavy small arms fire. Bob, Glen and the gunner were heavily hit . The crew chief was killed in the crash. They were chalk 5 and I was chalk 6. I identified the remains the next day after we recovered the bodies.
Tom Rudolph, dingy@snowhill.com
I recently got an assignment in my US History class. Our teacher gave us a challenge and our goal is to post remembrances to all those who lost their lives in vietnam. There are many people who don't have any remembrances on here and our goal is for them to be remembered and to show our gratitude to all they went through. My goal is to post 100 remembrances because those who gave that sacrifice for our country should never be forgotten. Richard, thank you for all you did, you will always be remembered!
Thanks!
Jen Steffen
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Thursday, May 8, 2003
