VC-62/VFP-62 In Memoriam Updated November 13, 2023
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"Standing Guard" Photo by: Frank Glick-MSP Taken at the National Cemetary at Minneapolis and appeared in the Minneapolis Star/TribuneRest 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...
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"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."
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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: June 2, 1934 - Died: November 13, 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
Updated 5/30/23 Lt. Cdr. George E. Custer Sr.
Born: May 22, 1926 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
Jerry Harvey
Born: August 29, 1942 - Died July 22,2018
Updated May 26, 2023 Capt. Morris "Mo" Hayes
Born: August 31, 1930 - Died August 24, 2020
Updated 5/26/23Leslie M. Holst
Born: December 15, 1943 - Died September 29, 2007
Donald Jusko PT2
Born: May 20, 1941 Died: July 25, 2016
Capt. LeRoy W. J. Keith
Born: June 20, 1916 - Died: October 25, 1982
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 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
Adm. Carol Castleman Smith Jr.
Born: August 7, 1930 - Died: October 14, 1983
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
(Updated 8/28/23) Robert Nathaniel Stiles PH2
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.
Updated 6/15/23 McKinley "Mac" Warnell
Born: Feb. 5, 1938 - 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