MARICLE WALLACE W

CW2 Wallace W Maricle was a potential VHPA member who died after his tour in Vietnam on 09/17/1988 at the age of 65.5
Lesage, WV
Flight Class 64-5W
Date of Birth 03/15/1923
Served in the U.S. Army
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More detail on this person: Helicopter Crashes Into Bay Off Ferry Building Two Navy "weekend warriors" escaped injury yesterday afternoon when their helicopter crashed into the bay off the Ferry Building. The airmen on a routine training flight, had landed at the 'Copter Port at the Ferry Building at about 4 o'clock. A few minutes later they took off and had risen about 50 feet when the engine conked out. The Naval Reservists, both veterans, are Lieutenant Wallace Maricle, 30, the pilot, an auto salesman of 109 Cyprus avenue, Alameda, and John Caporicci, 31, chief aviation metalsmith, employed as an airline mechanic at San Francisco Airport and living at 328 Azala drive, Palo Alto. The men, wearing "Mae Wests", swam 125 feet to the pier and were taken to Harbor Emergency Hospital and were "treated" to hot showers. Maricle came out of the experience without a scratch; Caporicci has a few light leg scratches. Lieutenant Maricle, who has been a reserve flyer for a year, and Chief Caporicci, a flying reservist for six months, took the helicopter out of Oakland Naval Air Station for an afternoon of flying. When the engine failed and the helicopter began to fall, Maricle said he tipped it over so the could escape, once it hit, without danger from the whirring blade. The 'copter sank at once. San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, July 26, 1953

Burial information: Pilot Knob Cemetery, Phelps County, MO

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Date posted on this site: 03/10/2024