10 Dec 2002 To one that gave all. I'll always be proud to have served with you. This Skytrooper along with the rest of "Masher Flight" - B Co 227th AHB, 1st Air Cavalry Division - will never forget you. Rest in peace, Brother. Glenn Teague generalwierdo@aol.com

 

A note from The Virtual Wall Four men died and one survived when a UH-1H (tail number 68-15589) of B Company, 227th Cbt Avn Bn, was hit in the port side by a B-40 rocket while at low altitude approaching an unsecured landing zone. The four dead were CPT David Neil Head, pilot, B/227th AHB SP4 William Walter Malone, crew chief, B/227th AHB SP4 Robert Coronado, gunner, B/227th AHB (died of wounds 2/21/71) 1LT Christopher L. Clearwaters, passenger, A Co, 5th Bn, 7th Cav Rgt The Aircraft Commander, CW2 Timothy E Cleary, still strapped in his seat, was ejected by the force of the explosion and survived. The three crewmen are remembered by their comrades in Bravo Company, 227th AHB.

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