A Note from The Virtual Wall On the night of 13 Jan 1966 a C-123B transport (tail number 55-4519) of the 310th Air Commando Squadron was providing flareship support for a flight of A-1E Skyraiders from the 1st ACS. The Skyraiders in turn were attacking VC positions near An Khe. As one of the Skyraiders pulled off target after delivering ordnance it collided with the circling flareship. Both aircraft crashed; there were no survivors. The dead were Aboard C-123B 55-4519 Capt Herman H. Ritchie, Okmulgee, OK, 310th ACS, pilot Capt Warren L. Anderson, San Jose, CA, 310th ACS, copilot SSgt Byron H. Crotwell, Jackson, MS, 310th ACS TSgt Thomas A. Fodaro, Syracuse, NY, 6253rd Cbt Spt Grp SSgt Edward J. Hincewicz, Scranton, PA, 310th ACS TSgt Irwin L. Hoffman, Elmhurst, NY, 310th ACS Aboard A-1E 52-133989 Capt Robert N. Middlebrooks, Ariton, AL, 1st ACS The 310th served in Vietnam for 6 years, under going several name changes. Activated as the 310th Troop Carrier Squadron, Assault, on 24 May 1963, it became the 310th Air Commando Squadron, Troop Carrier, on 8 Mar 1965; the 310th Air Commando Squadron, Tactical Airlift, on 1 Aug 1967; the 310th Special Operations Squadron on 1 Aug 1968; and the 310th Tactical Airlift Squadron on 1 Jan 1970. The squadron was inactivated on 15 Nov 1972.

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