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Arceneaux, John F., 1st Lt.
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1st Lt. John Arceneaux was the co-pilot of a C-124 "Globemaster" (#52-0980) that crashed into the 11,423-foot Pico Mulhacen in the Sierra Nevada mountains, 28 km south of Grenada.
At the time, the 8 man crew was TDY from Hunter AFB, Georgia at the time. The aircraft had gone missing on a flight from Moron Air Base (near Seville, Spain) to Murcia-San Javier Airport, Spain. The aircraft was supporting the search party that was looking for a U.S. nuclear bomb (one of four) that came down in the Mediterranean and coastal Spain following the mid-air collision of a B-52G bomber and a its refueling KC-135 tanker plane on 17 January 1966 near Palomares, Spain.
Lt. Arceneaux was interred in Saint Philomena Cemetery, Labadieville, Assumption Parish, Louisiana.
Crew: (names may be misspelled based on newspaper clipping source)
Capt. William T. Crnwell, Jr., Manchester, Georgia, the aircraft commander
1st. Lt, John F. Arceneaux, Supreme. Louisiana, second pilot
Capt. James P. Cisco, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, navigator
SSgt. Donald G. Gallitzin, Cleveland. Ohio, flight engineer
TSgt. James V. Thompson, Mill Spring, North Carolina, flight engineer
SSgt. Ronald W. Hickman, Portland, Oregon, loadmaster
SSgt. Charles R. Anderson, Tacoma, Washington
A2C Kenneth Young, Butler, Pennsylvania
