Grade and posthumous promotion O2

Posthumous decoration

Body was recovered
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Status: Killed In Action while performing the duty of Pilot.

Service: IN branch of the reserve component of the U.S. Army.

Flight class: 66-2

Short Summary: Aircraft accident

Aircraft: CH-47A tail number 66-00071

Primary cause: A/C Accident

Compliment cause: fire or burns

Started Tour: 10/15/1966

single male U.S. citizen

Religion: Latter Day Saints (Mormon)

This record was last updated on 04/11/1998

Information on U.S. Army helicopter CH-47A tail number 66-00071
Incident number: 67030502.KIA
This was a Combat incident. This helicopter was LOSS TO INVENTORY
This was an Unknown mission
Count of hits was not possible because the helicopter burned or exploded.
Small Arms/Automatic Weapons; Gun launched non-explosive ballistic projectiles less than 20 mm in size. (7.62MM)
The helicopter Crashed. Aircraft Destroyed.
Burned
Original source(s) and document(s) from which the incident was created or updated:
Defense Intelligence Agency Helicopter Loss database. Survivability/Vulnerability Information Analysis Center Helicopter database. Also: OPERA, LNOF, 07036, CASRP, CRAFX, KIAs added by MGL (Operations Report. Lindenmuth Old Format Data Base. Crash Facts Message.

Crew Members:
P 1LT WISE ROBERT EVANS KIA
AC CW2 PHILLIPS ORMAN DORR KIA
CE SP4 JANKA WILLIAM ROBERT KIA
G PFC MCKEE RICHARD CHARLES JR KIA
FE SP6 SMITH DENNIS WAYNE KIA

Passengers and/or other participants:
SP6 SPARKS CLIFFORD EDWARD, AR, PX, KIA
SP4 LAMPMAN KENNETH WAYNE, AR, PX, KIA
** NO NAME, PAX, 5

War Story:

Crashed inverted, exploded, and burned. No direct evidence of enemy fire but classified by Army as combat strike.

This record was last updated on 09/20/1998

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Date posted on this site: 06/20/2012

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