William Thomas Crawford

Airman First Class
34TH AIR BASE SQD, 34TH TAC GRP, 13TH AF
United States Air Force
11 May 1932 - 16 May 1965
Windsor, MO
Panel 01E Line 117

13TH AF

34TH TAC GRP 		Air Force Good Conduct, National Defense, Vietnam Service, Vietnam Campaign

The database page for William Thomas Crawford

23 Mar 2004

REMEMBERED

by his family.

A Note from The Virtual Wall

On Sunday, 16 May 1965, a group of B-57B bombers were loaded for a strike mission. At 0815 as the aircrews manned and started their aircraft a 750 pound bomb loaded aboard the lead aircraft detonated. Shrapnel and bits of aircraft hit the other B-57s, causing a chain of explosions along the flight line. By the time ground crews got the conflagration under control, 26 men were dead and numerous aircraft destroyed - 10 B-57Bs, a Navy F-8E, a USAF A-1E, and two VNAF A-1Hs. In addition, 31 other aircraft received greater or lesser degrees of damage.

Airman 1st Class William T. Crawford was one of the 26 dead.



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