Moran, Edgar C. II
Air Force Airman

Edgar C. II Moran, age 19, from Morgan, Pennsylvania, Allegheny county.

Parents: Betty and Edgar C. Moran

Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Chartiers Valley High (1974)

Date of death: Tuesday, May 13, 1975
Death details: One of the 23 men killed in a CH53 helicopter crash in Thailand. When the next day an Air Force captain knocked on Betty Moran’s door at 2:30 a.m., she didn’t want to let him in. “I heard about the helicopter crashing in Thailand on the news. I felt if I kept him on the other side it wouldn’t be true.”
Cemetery: Chartiers

Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1975), findagrave.com, Pittsburgh Post Gazette (1975)