Robert P Mathias, age 21, from Granada Hills, California, Los Angeles county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, May 13, 1975
Death details: One of the 23 men killed in a CH53 helicopter crash in Thailand.
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1975), findagrave.com
Jimmy P. Black, age 20, from Daphine, Alabama, Baldwin county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, May 13, 1975
Death details: One of the 23 men killed in a CH53 helicopter crash in Thailand.
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1975), findagrave.com
William R. McKelvey, age 23, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, May 13, 1975
Death details: One of the 23 men killed in a CH53 helicopter crash in Thailand.
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1975), findagrave.com
Bobby G. Collums, age 22, from Helena, Arkansas, Phillips county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, May 13, 1975
Death details: One of the 23 men killed in a CH53 helicopter crash in Thailand.
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1975), findagrave.com
George E. III Mcmullen, age 31, from Oxford, California, Solano county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, May 13, 1975
Death details: One of the 23 men killed in a CH53 helicopter crash in Thailand.
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1975), findagrave.com
Gerald A. Coyle, age 31, from Bentleyville, Pennsylvania, Washington county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, May 13, 1975
Death details: One of the 23 men killed in a CH53 helicopter crash in Thailand.
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1975), findagrave.com
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)
Thomas D. Dwyer, age 21, from Middlebury, Connecticut, New Haven county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, May 13, 1975
Death details: One of the 23 men killed in a CH53 helicopter crash in Thailand.
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1975), findagrave.com
Tommy R. Nealis, age 22, from Mount Sterling, Kentucky, Montgomery county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, May 13, 1975
Death details: One of the 23 men killed in a CH53 helicopter crash in Thailand.
Cemetery: Machpelah Cemetery
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1975), findagrave.com
Bob W. Ford, age 21, from Seminole, Texas, Gaines county.
Parents: Robert Wayne Ford
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, May 13, 1975
Death details: One of the 23 men killed in a CH53 helicopter crash in Thailand.
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1975), findagrave.com, The Paris News (1975)