Van John Joyce
First Lieutenant
C TRP, 1ST SQDN, 9TH CAVALRY, 1ST CAV DIV, USARV
Army of the United States
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
April 30, 1946 to March 12, 1971
VAN J JOYCE is on the Wall at Panel W4, Line 41

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19 Jul 1999

REMEMBERED

by "Big D"
sparkgap@btr.quik.com

 
07 March 2005

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The photo and following article is taken from The Philadelphia Daily News, special supplement entitled 'SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY,' October 26, 1987.

VAN J. JOYCE - First Lieutenant Joyce entered the Army in January 1968, after studying at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. The pilot, who flew both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, was assigned to Troop C of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). He died in Vietnam on May 7, 1970, at the age of 24.

The photo was taken while Joyce was a student at the Army and Navy Academy, Carlsbad, California.

From a native Philadelphian and Marine,
Jim McIlhenney
christianamacks@comcast.net


 

A Note from The Virtual Wall

On 12 March 1971 a "Pink Team" from C Troop, 1/9th Cavalry, was running an armed recon mission in Cambodia when one of the team's AH-1G Cobras (tail number 68-15062) was hit by .51 caliber antiaircraft fire. The crews of the other two aircraft (an OH-6 LOACH and a second Cobra) watched helplessly as the rotor mast detached from 68-15062 and the Cobra plunged to a flaming crash. Neither of the Cobra's crewmen survived the crash:
  • 1LT Van J. Joyce, Philadelphia, PA, pilot
  • CPT Joel T. Hageman, Wichita, KS, copilot
1LT Joyce is buried in Site 276E, Section D, of the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, California.

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