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Casualty Info
Home Town Las Cruces
Last Address Andersen AFB, Guam
Casualty Date May 10, 1969
Cause Non Hostile- Died Other Causes
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Sea
Location Guam
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Hillcrest Memorial Gardens Cemetery - Las Cruces, New Mexico
This crew was one of those from Fairchild AFB, Washington on TDY with the 4133rd Bomb Wing Provisional.
On 10 May 1969, B-52D (#56-0593) belonging to the 509th Bomb Wing crashed in the Pacific Ocean shortly after take-off from Andersen AFB, Guam. (325th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Wing)
Notes: 509th Bomb Wing, Andersen AFB, Guam attached to 4133rd Bomb Wing (Provisional) a
B-52D (# 56-0593). Crashed on take off from Andersen AFB, Guam (according to Ejection History site). part of "Operation Arc Light".
Crew:
Capt Larry Ivan Broadhead (pilot)
1st/Lt Maurice Edward "Ed" Lundy (co-pilot)
Capt James L Sipes (navigator/AC commander)
Capt Russell L Platt (radar/navigator)
1st/Lt Thomas R McCormick (EWO)
M/Sgt Harold B Deel (air gunner)
