SOPER DENNIS W

WO1 Dennis W. Soper was a potential VHPA member who died after his tour in Vietnam on 06/01/1969 at the age of 27.6 (Exact date not known.) from A/C accident
Flight Class 65-13W
Date of Birth 10/16/1941
Served in the U.S. Army
Served in Vietnam with 68 AHC in 67-68
This information was provided by Doug Decker, SSN deceased search

More detail on this person: Died in a Bell 47 crash in the Gulf of Mexico working from oil rigs and burned as well. I remember Dennis Soper, he was on his 2nd tour and wanted out of the army as soon as possible and from VN. This did not prevent him from flying the dangerous "Smokey" mission with our beat up smoke ship. This huey was usually ready for overhaul, I flew one later and it had a lot of stuff not working. I understand Dennis died in a Bell 47 crash in the Gulf of Mexico working from oil rigs and burned as well. The caption on the Smokey, from my photo collection was " Good Save" from a tail rotor failure at Tan An VN south of Saigon at a refueling point. Our smoke ship carried a .50 cal/ 4 M-60's, 2 cases of smoke grenades, besides smoke oil tanks, I had 2 on the one I flew & much more junk of war. For the worn out Hueys this was too much weight. I remember learning as much as possible from my talks with Dennis. We were in the 68th AHC at Bien Hoa.

Doug Decker

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