Antonio Lopez Alho
Sergeant
20TH SPECIAL OPS SQDN, 14TH SPECIAL OPS WING, 7TH AF United States Air Force Naugatuck, Connecticut October 25, 1946 to March 26, 1969 ANTONIO LOPEZ ALHO is on the Wall at Panel W28, Line 42 |
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Remembered by his squadronmates in the
A memorial from a fellow Green Hornet, |
A Note from The Virtual WallOn 26 March 1969 a UH-1 (tail number 63-13158) of the 20th SOS went down. While hostile fire was the suspected cause, the only certainties are that the aircraft was flying at about 4,000 feet when a severe vibration began. The pilot began an auto-rotation to earth, but control was lost during the descent. The main rotor came apart, severing the tail boom. The aircraft crashed and burned near Duc My, SVN, 12 minutes north of Nha Trang, SVN. Eight men died in the crash:
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