RADULOVICH MICHAEL J

2LT Michael J Radulovich was a potential member who died during training before going to Vietnam on 09/02/1967 at the age of 20.7 from A/C accident
Fort Wolters, TX
Flight Class 67-26
Date of Birth 12/12/1946
Served in the U.S. Army
This information was provided by Sammie Williams

More detail on this person: 3 Fort Wolters Lieutenants Killed - Special to the Express News Yoakum - A single-engine private plane crashed in bad weather four miles north of here early Saturday, killing three Fort Wolters Army Lieutenants and the wife of one of the officers. Killed were 2nd LT Simpson Ray, 23, and his wife, Susan Lander Ray, 19, both of Houston; 2nd Lt. Michael J Radulovich, 21 and 2nd LT. John Gary Popovich, 25. Fort Wolters is at Mineral Wells. The couple had been married only about a month, and the four were on a flight from Palacios to Rockport. Sheriff Ronnie Dodds said the Piper Cherokee plane struck a power line inmisty rain and crashed in brushy range country about 50 feet off a graveled road. First word of the crash came from members of an unidentified farm family whole home is close by. Dodds sai "the plane was broken up pretty badly-wreckage scattered over a quarter mile - but it didn't burn.

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Date posted on this site: 03/10/2024