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| CW2 Charles F. Creamer III
25 Mar 46 28 Nov 70 South Bend IN 06W87 1LT David C. Jauregui 03 Mar 44 28 Nov 70 Flagstaff AZ 06W87 SP4 James Powell 25 May 50 28 Nov 70 New Castle IN 06W88 PFC Gary D. Field 14 Nov 50 28 Nov 70 Columbia NY 06W87 The crew was flying a flare mission and did not return at the end of mission. Aircraft was found crashed on the side of a mountain. No other details known. Source: Fred Thompson June 1989. // Webmaster note: In October 2002, I got the following e-mail from Bruce Marshall: Jim, My memory of this loss has diminished some over the years, but I will share my recollections as they are. I think the date of the accident was Nov 24th (checked my flight records). If I remember correctly, it took a few days to locate the accident site due to inclement weather and a lack of coordinates. On this night, I was on primary standby with the Sharks. Creamer was Flareship standby. Sometime during the night, we were scrambled to provide gun support to an outpost which was under attack. The outpost was north of Duc Pho and south of Quang Ngai. I think it was adjacent to or near Route 1. I do not remember who I was flying with at the time, but the Team was 2 Sharks and 1 Flareship. We did not need any vectors to the outpost - the fire fight had it lit up pretty well, and the bad guys were right at the perimeter wire. Creamer kept the area lit up and we were able to do our job. After being released by the ground troops, we all three headed for home. The chatter on the radio was normal until Creamer quit responding to our calls. There was no mayday call, and as far as I recall, there was no other indication that anything was wrong. I think we were all hoping he had experienced a radio failure, but due to the poor weather and cloud cover, we were very uneasy about the silence from Creamer's ship. Speculation was that they flew into inadvertent IMC conditions. -- Bruce Marshall, October 2002. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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