Evreux C-130
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Deep in the Ecouve Forest, north of Alencon, in a clearing, off of a forest road.
A bronze plaque on a concrete base honors the airmen killed in the 1962 crash of a C-130 on this spot. Flying a mission with five other Hercules, returning to the Evreux Air Base after a paradrop near Bouard, this C-130 crashed in the forest, killing all fifteen aboard.
Monument Text:
IN MEMORY OF
FIFTEEN AMERICAN AIRMEN
OF THE 322D AIR DIVISION
AT EVREUX AIR BASE, FRANCE
THEIR VIGILANCE AND THEIR DUTY
IN THE PRESERVATION OF PEACE
DELIVERED THEM UNTO THEIR DEATH
ON THIS GROUND
8 MARCH 1962
KILLED IN THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM
WHEN THEIR U. S. AIR FORCE
C-130 TRANSPORT CRASHED HERE
LEST THEY BE FORGOTTEN:
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Maj William J. Wilson |
SSgt Alfred J. Knight |
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Capt Edward J. Vianco |
A1C Cecil Williams |
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Capt Vincent Santucci |
A1C Theodore J. Shedelbower |
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1st LT Stanley C. Hardin |
A1C Huey K. Green |
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1st LT James S. Douglass |
SP4 James E. Waples |
|
TSgt Robert L. Conway |
SP4 Lee R.Taylor |
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TSgt Harold E. Kazee |
A2C Stanley E. Royster |
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A3C Gayle J. O'Grady |
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Units:
317th Troop Carrier Wing
322nd Air Division
United States Air Force
United States Army
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