A1C Air Force Vietnam - 33Y - died in service.
34th Air Base SQD, 34th TAC GRP, 13th AF
At 0815hrs on Sunday morning, May 16, 1965, a B-57B Canberra was sitting on the flight line at Bien Hoa waiting to start engines for a strike mission. The aircraft was loaded with 4 750lb bombs under the wing and 9 500lb bombs in the bomb bay. Without warning a time delay fuse on one of the bombs malfunctioned and the aircraft exploded, setting off a chain reaction that killed A1C William Thomas Crawford and 26 other USAF men and destroyed 11 USAF aircraft. (Source - thewall-usa)
He left behind a widow and three children.
A1C Crawford is honored on panel 01E, line 117 of the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington D.C.
34th Air Base SQD, 34th TAC GRP, 13th AF
At 0815hrs on Sunday morning, May 16, 1965, a B-57B Canberra was sitting on the flight line at Bien Hoa waiting to start engines for a strike mission. The aircraft was loaded with 4 750lb bombs under the wing and 9 500lb bombs in the bomb bay. Without warning a time delay fuse on one of the bombs malfunctioned and the aircraft exploded, setting off a chain reaction that killed A1C William Thomas Crawford and 26 other USAF men and destroyed 11 USAF aircraft. (Source - thewall-usa)
He left behind a widow and three children.
A1C Crawford is honored on panel 01E, line 117 of the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington D.C.
A1C Air Force Vietnam - 33Y - died in service.
34th Air Base SQD, 34th TAC GRP, 13th AF
At 0815hrs on Sunday morning, May 16, 1965, a B-57B Canberra was sitting on the flight line at Bien Hoa waiting to start engines for a strike mission. The aircraft was loaded with 4 750lb bombs under the wing and 9 500lb bombs in the bomb bay. Without warning a time delay fuse on one of the bombs malfunctioned and the aircraft exploded, setting off a chain reaction that killed A1C William Thomas Crawford and 26 other USAF men and destroyed 11 USAF aircraft. (Source - thewall-usa)
He left behind a widow and three children.
A1C Crawford is honored on panel 01E, line 117 of the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington D.C.
34th Air Base SQD, 34th TAC GRP, 13th AF
At 0815hrs on Sunday morning, May 16, 1965, a B-57B Canberra was sitting on the flight line at Bien Hoa waiting to start engines for a strike mission. The aircraft was loaded with 4 750lb bombs under the wing and 9 500lb bombs in the bomb bay. Without warning a time delay fuse on one of the bombs malfunctioned and the aircraft exploded, setting off a chain reaction that killed A1C William Thomas Crawford and 26 other USAF men and destroyed 11 USAF aircraft. (Source - thewall-usa)
He left behind a widow and three children.
A1C Crawford is honored on panel 01E, line 117 of the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington D.C.
