Information on U.S. Army helicopter OH-6A tail number 68-17151
The Army purchased this helicopter 0469
Total flight hours at this point: 00000040
Date: 04/05/1970
Incident number: 70040505.KIA
Unit: F/8 CAV
This was a Combat incident. This helicopter was LOSS TO INVENTORY
This was a Recon mission for Unarmed Recon
While Enroute this helicopter was at Level Flight at 0030 feet and 050 knots.
South Vietnam
UTM grid coordinates: BT212207 (To see this location on a map, go to https://legallandconverter.com/p50.html and search on Grid Reference 49PBT212207)
Count of hits was not possible because the helicopter burned or exploded.
Small Arms/Automatic Weapons; Gun launched non-explosive ballistic projectiles less than 20 mm in size. (7.62MM)
causing a Fire.
Systems damaged were: PERSONNEL
Casualties = 01 DOI, 02 INJ . .
The helicopter Crashed. Aircraft Destroyed.
Both mission and flight capability were terminated.
Burned
Original source(s) and document(s) from which the incident was created or updated: Defense
Intelligence Agency Helicopter Loss database. Survivability/Vulnerability Information Analysis
Center Helicopter database. Also: OPERA, LNNF, JSIDR, CRAFX, CASRP (Operations Report.
Lindenmuth New Format Data Base. Joint Services Incident Damage Report. Crash Facts Message.
Casualty Report. )
Loss to Inventory
Crew Members:
PX SP4 GRAVER RAYMOND CHARLES JR KIA
P WO1 NORTON GARY W
CE SGT BERG MYRON WALDO KIA
War Story:
AMERICAL Casualty Log for 05 April 1970 contains three entries for F Troop, 8th Cavalry:
BERG, Myron W SGT F/8 Cav/16 1520H 5 Apr #2032 91st Evac Burns 90%
NORTON, Gary W WO1 F/8 Cav/16 1520H 5 Apr #2033 91st Evac Burns 25%
GRAVER, Raymond G SP4 F/8 Cav/16 1520H 5 Apr #2035 Graves Reg Chu Lai
BERG (Crew Chief per TAGCEN) died from his injuries on 08 April 1970; that too is noted in the CasLog. NORTON survived.
This record was last updated on 04/26/2008
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