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Casualty Info
Home Town Oakville
Last Address Oakville
Casualty Date Nov 28, 1966
Cause MIA-Finding of Death
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Land
Location Bien Hoa (Vietnam)
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Edwards Cemetery - Oakville, Iowa
This record was last updated on 06/28/1991
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Information on U.S. Army helicopter UH-1B tail number 64-13951
Incident number: H342ACD Accident case number: H342
This was a Combat incident.
This helicopter was LOSS TO INVENTORY for Close Air Support The station for this helicopter was Bien Hoa in South Vietnam
Count of hits was not possible because the helicopter burned or exploded.
Systems damaged were: PERSONNEL
Casualties = 04 DOI . . Number killed in accident = 4 . . Injured = 0 . . Passengers = 0
The helicopter Crashed. Aircraft Destroyed.
Both mission and flight capability were terminated.
Original source(s) and document(s) from which the incident was created or updated:
Defense Intelligence Agency Helicopter Loss database. Army Aviation Safety Center database. Survivability/Vulnerability Information Analysis Center Helicopter database.
Also: OPERA, UH1P1, 11250, CASRP, OPREP (Operations Report. Casualty Report. )
PILOT RADIOED TO WING MAN THAT HE WAS GOING IN. AIRCRAFT APPEARED TO BE IN NORMAL AUTOROTATION. AT TERMINATION IT TURNED RT & APPEARED TO HIT TREE OR GROUND W/GREAT FORCE & EXPLODE. WING MAN LANDED BUT HAD TO DEPART DUE TO GROUND FIRE. DECEASED EXTRACTED NEXT DAY. ACFT CONSUMED BY FIRE
