| Crusader Down This page sponsored by: Pat Dougan. Pat
was flying one of the Rat Pack gun ships |
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Art Work By Joe Kline -
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copyright Joe Kline Picture concept by owner Pat Dougan |
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The crew of the burning aircraft are: |
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| Aircraft Commander: | CW2 Bob Trezona (WIA) |
| Pilot: | 1LT Thomas A. Pienta (WIA) |
| Crew Chief: | Specialist James G. Brady (KIA) |
| Door Gunner: | Steve Toppi (WIA) |
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| Other crew members who gave their life on this day : |
| WO1 Allen Eugune Duneman (KIA) |
| 1LT. August Karl Ritzau (KIA) |
| SGT. Jerome Dee Chandler (KIA) |
| SP5 Dave DeWitt Creel (KIA) |
| SP4 Fredrick Harry Frazer (KIA) |
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All of our thanks and blessings to our brothers, the Grunts who served with us and gave their lives or limbs on this day. I am very sorry we do not have a list of their names. |
Flight positions and
crews for insertion. |
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| Aircraft No. |
Chalk | Aircraft
Commander |
Pilot | Crew Chief | Gunner |
| 67-17767 | C&C | Jim Gaffney | Dave (Doc) Brown | ||
| Lead | Tom Tesmar | ||||
| 2 | Peter Davis | ||||
| 3 | |||||
| 4 | |||||
| 5 | Allen Duneman (KIA) | August Ritzau (KIA) | |||
| 66-16574 | 6 | Ron Timberlake | Bruce Eckerson | John R. Longoria | Gregg Nelson |
| 7 ? | Frank Cozart | John Jewett | Anthony J. Kohler | ||
| 8 ? | Jack Flukinger | Robert "Bob" Bess | |||
| 9 | Borrowed Pilot | ? | |||
| 67-17784 | Trail | Bob Trezona (WIA) | Thomas A. Pienta (WIA) | James G. Brady (KIA) | Steve Toppi (WIA) |
| 66-00641 | Rat Pack |
(1)
Jim Souders (2) Ronnie Hopkins |
Pat Dougan | John Broome | Raymond T. Jimison |
| Rat Pack |
Asa Vest | Jim Ray | |||
Please let me know where the following names fit into the formation above.
| Vince Tortolano | Tim Moore | Al Barret | Larry Lagasse |
| Jim Rhode | Dave Brown | Dick Parthemueller | Barry Zimmerman |
| Bill Vanderwege | Mark Padilla |
For a chilling story about this picture written by Pilot Thomas A. Pienta read:
Click on thes pictures to go to the story. |
Please let me know if you flew on this day and I don't have your name. If you can remember, please let me know which crew you were with, ship number, chalk and crew position you were in. |
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© 1997 2001 WMH
