Information on U.S. Marine Corps helicopter UH-1E tail number 153742
Date: 01/18/1968
Incident number: 68011803.KIA
Unit: VMO-3
South Vietnam
Casualties = 02 KIA . .
Original source(s) and document(s) from which the incident was created or updated: Defense Intelligence Agency Helicopter Loss database. Also: OPERA, KIAMAIN, USMC History Center Casualty Files (Operations Report. )
Summary: Crashed into the sea during a medevac mission.
Loss to Inventory
Crew Members:
CE SSG FAIR RONALD KIA
G SSG SPRING HOMER DOYLE KIA
War Story:
Crashed off shore killing to crew members.
From VMO-3 Cmd Chronology for Jan 1968
This record was last updated on 11/30/2019
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