More detail on this person: Harold Ames
CLARK III, Age 69, of Jupiter, passed away Nov.
26, 2014. Edgley Cremation Services, West Palm
Beach, FL.
Published in The Palm Beach Post from Nov. 28 to
Nov. 29, 2014
Harold served with the Black Widows (188th AHC)
from April until October 1968 attaining the rank
of CW2. He was a gunship pilot with callsign
Spider 35.
He died after a long battle with cancer.
He was a caring person, proud of his service and
contributed to the effort to keep all Black Widows
and Spiders in touch.
Here is an article written by Harold: After
getting in touch with the Black Widows group I got
the roster from Richard Green. The next thing I
did was get my gunner's location and called him.
Much to my amazement, he was happy to hear
from me. Talking to Fred Norris opened up a whole
new emotion that I had suppressed all these years.
I went out to Reno and saw Fred and my crew chief
Ben Bright at that crew reunion in 2010.
I arrived in country in May 1968, went to LZ
Sally, flew slicks but wanted to shoot back, so I
got into guns as a Peter Pilot, all the way thru
Phu Bai. There I made AC with the callsign Hawk
35. At Camp Eagle the units were changing to
Cobras. I didn't volunteer for that and was sent
to unit operations under Major Grayson. I went
there with two other warrants, Dean Murphy and
John Collins, as we had two months to go. After
Nam I went to Fort Rucker to learn to instruct in
CH-34s. From there I was sent to Germany.
I started to see former 188th members writing on
face mail. I noticed that the Dau Tieng crews were
tight with each other. After the Orlando VHPA
reunion, I kept getting names on facebook. Most of
the names were the Dau Tieng names so I started
adding you guys as friends on facebook. I enjoy
reading the posts. That as the saying goes This is
my story and I'm sticking to it. Harold Clark
formerly Spider 35.
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