8th ID DIVARTY Command Team UH-1 Crash Plaque
Details:
On the upper left corner behind the Medal of Honor monument.
A small silver metal plaque attached on a large white hewn boulder. The plaque commemorates the soldiers of the 8th ID DIVARTY Command Team who were killed when their Bell UH-1H Iroquois helicopter crashed on the edge of a field near Unteralterheim while flying from the unit's barracks at Baumholder to the Army training grounds at Grafenwohr.
Monument Text:
IN MEMORIAM
Colonel Robert T. Basha
Lieutenant Colonel Edward T. Kelly
Captain David T. Johnson
Captain Harvey R. Jokinen
Command Sergeant Major James W. Cook
Sergeant Major John W. Knighton
8th Infantry Division (Mechanized) Artillery
27 JUNE 1978
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8th Infantry Division
Wars:
Cold War
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