More detail on this person: Mike and I graduated from Andalusia High School the same year and
had known each other for years. While I was going thru rotary wing flight school prior to being
sent to Vietnam in July of 68 Mike would come over to our trailer and visit often. Mike died while
I was was in Nam. This information was last updated 05/18/2016
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He was married to Lucy Prestwood from Andalusia, no children, lived in Enterprise, Al. His huey hit
a large oak tree head on while flying nap of the earth to stay below the storm. As luck would have
it, it was the only damn tree in the pasture, which was the size of Lowe Army Airfield. He is buried
in a lone plot in Andalusia. We could not get Lucy to bury him at Arlington, where he belongs to
this day.
From: Myers Armstrong
Crashed in UH-1B at 10 P.M. 2 miles from Matteson Range, Ft Rucker In heavy thunderstorm with
students I.M. Baker & H.M. Kelley.