View a eulogy for Richard Damon Johnson, USMA '55, who passed away on August 11, 1965.
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Richard Damon Johnson
West Point, 1955
Be Thou At Peace
Posted by Carl McNair on September 10, 2010:
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On 3 FEB 2005 Ft Rucker dedicated a Monument to all the Army Aviation personnel assigned to Flight Test units who have died in flight (28 five DAC's, one EM, five WO's and 17 commissioned) including '55's Richie Johnson. Richie was an Aerospace Engineer assigned to the Tri-Service V/STOL Test Activity at Edwards AFB CA. He was getting checked out in the U-8 (IP was Austin Veatch '50) and got caught in a violent Mojave Desert Thunderstorm on August 11 1965. Viewing the wreckage, I was flying one of the Search Helicopters, it appeared that the U-8 hit the ground on a near-vertical flight path. August 11 1965 was a sad day for '55. Carl McNair Feb 2005 |
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