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TRIA61-0331 Telemetery Range Instrumentation Aircraft- Mike Mauro
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John Christy Wetzel 13 June 1971, 61-0331, C-135 nuclear test observation lost in Pacific
This C-135B was assigned to the Aeronautical Systems Division of AF Systems Command at Wright Patterson. It departed Pago Pago, American Samoa, headed to Hickam AB in Hawaii. It was being used to
monitor French atmospheric nuclear tests in the Pacific and disappeared after one such test. All 24 onboard were lost approximately 700 mi. SSW of Honolulu. A beacon of the type carried on the aircraft was found, but no explanation for the crash was ever determined.
The AF released the names of 24 on board:
Lt Col Victor J. Reinhart, Dayton, navigator
Lt Col Billy L. Skipworth, Papillion, NE, aircraft commander
Maj William Edward Page, Jr, Xenia, OH
Maj William Unsderfer, Xenia, OH, an aircraft commander
Maj John R. McGinn, Jamestown, OH, navigator
Capt Perry Thomas Rose, Dayton, OH, pilot
Capt Byron C. Burnett, San Bernardino, CA
1Lt James Gilbert, San Bernardino, CA
TSgt Hubert Miles Jr, Fairborn, OH, boom operator
SSgt Kenneth S. Kowal, Youngstown, OH
SSgt Elno Roe Weimer, Springfield, OH, flight engineer
Maj Joseph B. William, Albuquerque, NM
Thomas J. Walter, Chelmsford, MA
David Penney, North Reading, MA
Anthony J. Theriault, Newbury, MA
John P. Cahill, Andover, MA
Rola F. Blanchard, Arlington, TX
Charles V. Dito, Arlington, TX
Dean L. Hoar, Arlington, TX
John B. Tumas, Greenville, TX
Thomas R. Connor, Los Alamos, NM
Edward M. Slagal, (Westinghouse Corp., Baltimore)
Donald E. Ashland, San Bernardino, CA
Allen Morrissette, (Avco Corp. Wilmington, MA)
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