POWELL LAWRENCE ALLYN

CW2 Lawrence "Larry" Allyn Powell was a potential VHPA member who died after his tour in Vietnam on 06/03/1973 at the age of 26.2 from A/C accident
Arlington, TX
Flight Classes 70-33 and 70-31
Date of Birth 03/10/1947
Served in the U.S. Army
Served in Vietnam with 117 AHC in 71-72
This information was provided by Steven W. Powell (brother), TAGCEN database, Susan Daniel

More detail on this person: UH-1 crash while flying for the National Guard in Dallas Ft. Worth area Grand Pariari while acting as a co-pilot.While with the Texas ARNG A/C crashed at night near Oak Grove airport S of Ft. Worth while enroute to 300 Aviation Squadron base.

I found as much information as I could for now. It seems that I was incorrect on some of the information I gave you. Larry flew relief aid to victims of a tsunami in East Pakistan in late 1970 for U.S. Task Force 182 in one of eight UH-IH Huey helicopters. He was in Viet Nam (I'm assuming due to the lack of a year notation on his letters to my dad and mom) probably during 1971-1972. In one of his letters he mentioned a Col. Hackworth as a man that was quitting the army over disgust in how the U. S. was handling the war. He said that Hackworth said, "We had this huge force that was heavy in logisticians and bloody thin on fighters." Most of the things Hackworth said in the letter were from the July 5th issue of Newsweek. I tried to find that issue of Newsweek over the weekend, but couldn't do that from home.

He also wrote my mother that if she could find the December 27th issue of Newsweek, she'd be able to find a full page story on his company there. But, again, he did not give a year on his letter. He said the article was good, with the exception of one comment made in the article. It said that the pilots were fighting for the chance to go on missions. Larry said that they weren't fighting for the chance - the missions were so plentiful nobody fought for more. On one envelope of a letter he sent my dad he wrote a return address of:

WO-1 L. A. Powell, 117th AVN CO, APO San Francisco, Calif 96266

From: Steven W. Powell

This information was last updated 05/18/2016

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