MURPHY WILLIAM ARTHUR

1LT William Arthur Murphy died after flight school but did not serve as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam on 08/10/1972 at the age of 27.2 from A/C accident
Lodi, CA
Flight Class 70-40
Date of Birth 05/12/1945
Served in the U.S. Army
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More detail on this person: Helicopter crash in the United States while acting as a co-pilot.While with 40 AHC (CA ARNG) A/C experienced a power failure and hit high tension wires and plunged into the Santa Ana River bed about 1/2 mile S of Lakeview Ave while enroute to repair another A/C in the Riverside area. 1SG Wood died 2 days later.

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