Hendrix, Charles Thomas
Navy Parachustist Air Crew Survival Equipment Man 1

Charles Thomas Hendrix, age 34, from Ocean County Toms River, New Jersey .

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Tuesday, September 26, 1972
Death details: He was a parachute instructor with 800 jumps to his credit. He fell 3,500 feet to his death after striking his head on the plane’s tail section while exiting from a C-117 on a training flight at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey
Cemetery: Reeseville in Jackson County, Iowa

Source: Grave marker, UPI (1972), The Times (1972)