Information on U.S. Marine Corps helicopter CH-46A tail number 152537
Date: 03/01/1969
Incident number: 69030111.KIA
Unit: HMM-164
South Vietnam
Casualties = 01 KIA . .
Original source(s) and document(s) from which the incident was created or updated: Defense Intelligence Agency Helicopter Loss database. Also: Sid Nanson, OPERA (Operations Report. )
Loss to Inventory
Crew Members:
P 1LT BURTON THOMAS LEE KIA
AC MAJ EICHELBERGER JOHN M RES
E5 GENTZLER GREGORY J RES
War Story:
Crashed in the South China Sea southeast of Hue. The bird was on a test flight after extensive repairs.
This record was last updated on 10/20/2015
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