More detail on this person: Internment Georgia
National Cemetery 1080 Veterans Cemetery Road
Canton, GA US 30114.
My tour of duty was from March of 1970 to Mar 23,
1971, final rank was CW2. I was an aircraft
commander for the last six months, and my call
sign was Tomahawk 17. Howie Curtis was my crew
chief, and I don't remember the ship's aircraft
number, but he named it Bonita, after the girl he
was going back to Colorado to marry. Howie and I
had a great time together, and I sure wish him
well, like to see him again. I was together with
Wayne Potts and Art Fantroy quite a bit, and Art
and I shared a hootch the whole time I was there
at Phu Loi. Art and Wayne arrived in country a
few months before I did, and they both extended
for six months, so they were still there for
several months after I left. The last mission I
flew (it was a general's ship because I was a
short timer and they wouldn't let me in the
flight) was the one in which Jim Hestand's ship
went down. I left country for an early out six
days later -- that was a hard one, and we're so
glad that Jim made it home -- I remember reading
the headlines when the group of POWs was
released out of Cambodia two years later.
Afterward I did a few hundred hours of fixed wing
time, but I haven't flown a chopper since, got
into computers instead, and I fly a desk.
Burial information: Georgia National Cemetery, Canton, GA
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