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In Memoriam

In Memoriam


Page Updated: May 25, 2023 With the new dawn at Cecil Field the photo Crusaders beckon Photo: Arthur W. Scarborough PHC Thank you for visiting our site. Please Recommend Us To Your Friends Email the Webmaster We invite you to click this link - VFP-62 Webmaster* to email a question, comment, correction, or contribution to this page.* Updated 7/8/21 "Standing Guard" Photo by: Frank Glick-MSP Taken at the National Cemetary at Minneapolis and appeared in the Minneapolis Star/Tribune Rest easy, sleep well my brothers. Know the line has held, your job is done. Rest easy, sleep well. Others have taken up where you fell, the line has held. Peace, peace, and farewell... "One More Roll" Capt. Jerry Coffee, USN Ret. We toast our hearty comrades Now fallen from the sky, And gently caught by God's own hand To be with Him on high, To dwell among the soaring clouds They knew so well before, From dawn patrol and victory roll At heavens' very door. And as we fly among them there, We're sure to hear their plea: "Take care, my friend, Watch your six, And do one more roll...just for me." CLICK To see: The Story Behind Capt Coffee's Poem Click on name for memorial information Capt. Edward K. Andrews Born: ??,1942 Died: September 16, 2014 Cmdr. John Baals Born: August 5, 1932 Died: August 1, 2019 Thomas J. Bennett ADJ 2 Born: December 3, 1941 Died: May 23, 1964 (USS Independence Flight Deck accident) Cdr. Ward L. Berkey- Born: 1922 -- Died: January 14, 2009 W.W. (Bill) Best AT2 Died circa 2007 - Details Requested Also see "Guest Log" Page 1 this site] Capt. Eugene "Bz" Bezore Born: January 11, 1926 -- Died: April 7, 2007 Capt. Cole Black- Born: Nov. 28, 1932 Died: Nov. 9, 2007 Richard (Dick) Bowns AE3 Born: Nov. 6, 1943 Died: Aug. 4, 2007 LTJG Norman Lee Bundy Born: Jan. 26, 1941 Died: Sept. 6, 1966 (North Vietnam) Cdr. Ralph E. Cheney Born: Jan. 2, 1916 - Died: March,17, 1997 Capt. Gerald "Jerry" Coffee Born: ??/??/?? - Died: November 12, 2021 Capt. Paul T. Corrigan Born: ??? Died: November 19, 2006 Capt. Robert O. Coulthard VFP-62 Commanding Officer circa 1963 Born: Nov. 2, 1921 - Died: Jan. 23, 2005 Information Requested Lt. Cdr. George E. Custer Sr. Born: -- Died April 4, 2014 Updated 5/26/23 James J. D'Ambrosio Born: ?? -- Died: Jan. 3, 2015 Information Requested. John Lee D'Amico ADJ3 Died May 23,1995 LCDR Ron Datka Born: October 2, 1935 - Died: May 17,1999 Cdr. John DeChant Born: May 13, 1932 Died: March 5, 2018 LTJG Richard L. Dieterich Died July 19, 1958 on a VFP-62 mission over Lebanon Capt. Willard D. Dietz Born: Died: November 20, 2010 Ed Duffy Born 26 Jul 1945 and died 25 Feb 1988 Carl Dugger, PHC Died April 14, 1994 Capt. William B. Ecker Born: April 6, 1924 - Died: Nov. 5, 2009 Lt. Marlin Vincent Egert Born: ?? - Died: Oct. 8, 1979 Capt. Edmond Feeks Born: November 29, 1929 - Died: April 26, 2016 Cdr. Wyatte F. Foard Jr. Born: Aug. 18, 1932 - Died: March 27, 2007 Atlanta, GA buried Naval Cemetery Pensacola Adm. Frank Edward Foltz Born: September 26, 1920 - Died: August 13, 1974 (information requested) Capt. Lawrence B. Gallion USN Ret. Born: Feb. 16, 1934 - Died: Mar. 7, 2008 ?Harold? Gray AE2 Died: approximately late 1957 - early 1958. He was trapped between an NC 5 and a TV2 on the ramp at VFP 62 line. The transmission engaged and jumped the chocks pinning him between the unit and the plane. His death led to the procedure change that two men would always be on hand to operate the NC 5 one to plug in and operate electrical generator panel and the other to stay in the driver seat on brakes during hight power running. Update (3/3/15)Gray had just returned from Med cruise. Don't remember what ship. It happened on afternoon shift; I don't remember what aircraft he was working on. I saw him hook up the NC5 and went into hangar when it happened. It was in the evening in August or September 1957 and know it happened very soon after their cruise came back. Dave Stokes AD3 (information requested) Cdr. Norman R. Green USN Ret. Born: April 11, 1940 - Died: April 1, 2023 Richard "Dick" Leon Gregory AEC USN Ret. Born: Aug. 25, 1930 - Died: July 19, 2018 Updated May 26, 2023 Capt. Morris "Mo" Hayes Born: August 31, 1930 - Died August 24, 2020 Updated 5/26/23 Leslie M. Holst Born: December 15, 1943 - Died September 29, 2007 Donald Jusko PT2 Born: May 20, 1941 Died: July 25, 2016 Cmdr. William Newby Kelt Born: October 6, 1928 Died: May 6, 2021 Capt. Edwin (Ed) Kiem VFP-62 CO 1957-58 Died Sept. 8, 2008, age 91 LT. James T. (Jim) Kirkland Jr Born Dec. 22,1930, Died Oct 28, 1986 LT. Cdr. Bernard W. Kortge Born June 30,1927 - Died June 7, 2015 Forrest James Lane Sr. ADC Born: Jan. 6 1921 - Died: April 10, 2011 Capt. W.C. Larry Born: Aug. 21, 1925 - Died: Jan 6, 2003 Updated 5/25/23 Updated (5/22/23) Cdr. George Lawniczak Born: ?? - Died: June 1, 2015 Capt. Frank Liberato Born: ???? - Oct. 3, 2013 LT Robert E. Lynn Died Dec. 21, 2006 (information requested) Paul J. Maracz AT2 Born: March 8, 1940 - Died August 15, 2015 Rod Martin Born: ?? - Died Nov. 20, 2015 Information Requested Cdr. Thomas C. Mauney Born: May 6, 1928 - Died June 11, 2020 Information Requested LCDR John M. McCall Born 1930 - Died Feb. 19, 1964 LT. Jerry McDonnell Born August 8, 1929 - Died April 2, 2014 Clifford M. Montney Born Jan. 30, 1943 - Died April 9, 2015 Glenn James "Bud" Moore AMC Born March 16,1941 - Died: February 26, 2023 Alwin E. Morsch Born April. 17, 1942 - Died August 28, 2015 Gerald Musgrove Born: November 28, 1947 - Died March 10, 2015 Capt. Claude Navarrette Born: Oct 4, 1925 - Died: October 25, 2010 William Thomas Newby PHCM Born: Jan. 29, 1939 - Died: July 8, 1921 Edward C. Newman PHC Born: - Died: 1986 Capt. Henry C. North Jr. Born: November 10, 1932 - Died: March 3, 1996 Lt. W. G. Offerman Born: June 1933 - Died: May 22, 1961 Capt. Charles E. Ray Born ??? - Died: May 4, 1998 Jim Rettenmeyer Born: February 9, 1938 - Died: June 17, 2011 LTJG John Richard Richardson Born Feb. 9, 1935 Died April 8, 1963 Thomas S. Roberts, PH2 Born: August 10, 1942 - Died: May 27, 2013 Arthur W. Scarborough PHC Born: August 4, 1929 - Died: November 25, 2015 John Sees PH2 Born: February 27, 1944 - Died: January 2, 2018 Lt. James Shaver Jr. Born: October 23, 1934-- Died: October 31, 2009 Information Requested Captain William A. Shryock Born: September 14, 1915 - Died: June 29, 1989 Capt. Dave M. Sjuggerud Born: April 21, 1942 - Died Nov. 26, 2008 Dale Smading ADJ 3 Born: Jan 9, 1938 - Died in 2004 from a brain tumor Donny J. Stacy ADJ 3 Born: Died: July 27, 1965 Updated 5/21/23 John Starkey PH1 Born: October 16, 1937 Died: Sept. 13, 2016 Cdr. Bernard F. "Skip" Staub Born October 4, 1935, Died Nov. 2, 2005 Robert Nathaniel Stiles - photomate rate? Born: October 2, 1935; Died: March 11, 2013. Marion Reynolds Swinford ADJ2 Born: January 9, 1938; Died: May 17, 2023. Harold L. Tanner ATC Born August 20, 1932, Died Dec. 18, 2007 LT William L. Taylor Born unknown, Died: December 28, 2006 Clyde Henson Thomas, Jr. ADC Born January 31, 1924 - Died: July 11, 1968 CDR Richard Keith Thomas Born unknown, Died 1983 Jim Trenoskie Born: - Died: January 27, 2022 Gerald Tucker Born: May 31, 1944 - Died: June 27, 2010 Kenneth R. (Ken) Tuel PN Born: Sept. 6, 1937; Died: June 9, 2000. Robert J. Walters Born: Jan. 8, 1934 ; Died: July 16, 2016. Mac Warnell Born: ; Died: August 4, 2013. Robert (Bob) O. Watson ATCS Born ?,?,1930 Died: Dec. 31, 1998 Jim Weaver Sr. ADC Born Jan. 14, 1941 Died: Jan. 24, 2016 Updated 5/19/23 Ray Wittenauer Born: August 3, 1941 Died: May 2, 2015 LT Christopher B. Wilhelmy III Born: October 23, 1935 - Died: February 17, 1966 Capt Alan S Wilhite Born January 4, 1927 Died Nov 17, 2011 Updated 1/23/14:Information Requested CDR George Winslow Born July 5, 1924 Died December 13, 1996 Frank Wolle PHC Born: August 13, 1926 Died: January 29,2002 Cdr Norman L. Youngblood Jr. Born: Oct. 20, 1928 - Died: Nov. 10,1997

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