I cobbled this together tonight as a tribute. This poem has always stayed with me. Major Michael Davis ODonnell was a pilot with the 170th AHC. He was MIA March 24 1970 when shot down 14 miles inside the Cambodian border extracting a SOG Recon Team. Onboard UH-1H 68-15262 when it went down: Aircrew, 170th AHC: MAJ Michael D. ODonnell, Springfield, IL (02/07/1978) CWO John C. Hosken, Chagrin Falls, OH (08/28/1978) SSG Rudy M. Becerra, Richmond, TX (11/13/1978) SSG Berman Ganoe, Belleview, FL (01/16/1974) RT Pennsylvania: CPT Jerry L. Pool, Freeport, IL (11/13/1978) SFC John A. Boronski, Ware, MA (11/27/1978) SFC Gary A. Harned, Springboro, PA (11/13/1978) Five indigenous troops The remains of the men lost in this crash were repatriated on 12 Apr 1995. DNA tests confirmed individual identification for four Americans - MAJ Michael ODonnell, CWO John Hosken, SSGT Rudy Becerra, and SSGT Berman Ganoe, Jr. The three other Americans - CPT Jerry Poole, SFC John Boronski, and SFC Gary Harned - could not be individually identified; their presence aboard the helicopter and among the unidentifiable remains was based on circumstantial evidence. The recovery and identification of the remains was made public on 20 June 2001.
Posted on: Sun, 25 May 2014 00:28:52 +0000
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