CARTER THOMAS ANTHONY

Narrative

This was a single ship VIP flight for the CG of the 3rd Marine Division. The official USMC history states that the aircraft crashed inverted in a flooded rice paddy and that there was still a fuel fire burning when the CO of the 4th Marines arrived in another helicopter. This party landed on a dike and walked to the crashed UH-1E. They put the fire out and had to dive under water to get the bodies out. There were six KIAs in the helicopter. The 6th man was MGen HOCHMUTH's ARVN aide, name unknown.