Willy Scott Baker

The database page for Willy Scott Baker

4 Feb 2003 REMEMBERED by his comrades-in-arms. From another Swift Boat sailor, Terry Boone mtboone@aol.com

Mission Notes On 15 Nov 1966, PCF-77 was at sea with seven men aboard: LTJG David G. Wilbourne, Officer-in-Charge BM1 Alma Twichell EN2 O'Neal GMG Hodson BM3 Harry Giles Brock RM3 Bruce Allan Timmons MRC Willy Scott Baker, passenger As the boat was in the approaches to the mouth of the Hue River, reportedly searching for a crewman washed overboard from PCF-21 during a monsoon storm, it was overtaken by a 30' wave which flipped her bow-down, stern-up and sank her immediately. Three men who were below deck were trapped and lost at sea. The bodies of two men, Chief Petty Officer Baker and Petty Officer 3rd Class Brock, were recovered; Petty Officer 3rd Class Timmons' body was not. Several days later, when divers attempted to locate the wreckage "the largest piece they found was a piece of 'rolled aluminum' not more than 18 inches in length. The boat had been ripped apart by the sea, the sandy bottom and during the course of the storm had been torn and shredded into small, unrecognizable pieces. The recovered aluminum piece looked as it had been rolled up, like a newspaper, and then been polished silvery bright." As recalled by Anthony R. Taylor, LTJG, OinC PCF-16 Summarized from the Swift Boat site and LTJG Taylor's account

The point-of-contact for this memorial is another Swift Boat sailor, Terry Boone mtboone@aol.com  4 Feb 2003

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Jim Schueckler, former CW2, US Army
Ken Davis, Commander, United States Navy (Ret)
Channing Prothro, former CAP Marine
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