Dedication ceremony October 8, 2011 A bronze sculpture to honor 2nd LT Carol Ann Drazba RN will be erected in her home town of Dunmore, Pennsylvania. The dedication ceremony will be held at noon on October 8, 2011. All are invited. Kim Atkinson RN kgatkinson527@gmail.com 570-383-9552 Friends of the Forgotten NE Wing Pennsylvania The groundbreaking ceremony, April 27, 2011. Photo by Nick Fata. See an article about the groundbreaking ceremony on the Times Leader web site.

 

07 Feb 1998 Lt. Drazba and Lt. Elizabeth Jones were assigned to the 3rd Field Hospital in Saigon. They died in a helicopter crash near Saigon, February 18, 1966. Both were 22 years old. On The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Panel 5E- Line 46 Vietnam Women's Memorial Foundation Women in Vietnam (the web site) Some details about the 8 military and 56 civilian American women killed in the war. Military Woman Home Page

 

Notes from The Virtual Wall On 18 Feb 1966, a UH-1B Huey (tail number 64-14188) of the 197th Assault Helicopter Company, 145th Combat Aviation Battalion, was on an administrative flight to Da Lat when the aircraft struck a high-tension transmission line over a river in the vicinity of Bien Hoa. All seven persons aboard died in the crash: LTC Charles M. Honour, Jr, pilot, Commanding Officer, 145th Avn Bn CPT Albert Merriman Smith, copilot, HHC, 145th Avn Bn SP4 Gary Ray Artman, crew chief, 197th Avn Co SP4 Christopher Joseph Lantz, gunner, 197th Avn Co CPT Thomas William Stasko, passenger, HHC, 145th Avn Bn 2LT Carol Ann Elizabeth Drazba, passenger, 3rd Fld Hosp 2LT Elizabeth Ann Jones, passenger, 3rd Fld Hosp

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