Helicopter Accidents

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H-19
Ashiya, Japan
28 Mar 1957

The Lincoln Star (Lincoln, NE)
Wed, Apr. 03, 1957 page 6

Dead Identified

TOKYO (Wednesday) (INS) – The Far East Air Forces Command released the names of three American airmen killed in a helicopter crash on Nationalist China’s Formosa Island last Friday.

They were:
First Lt. William Roger Hendrickson, of Knoxville, Tenn., Airman 2C Walter Samuel Williams Jr., of Nodaway, IA. and Airman 3C Richard Carl Fritz of Harrisburg, Ill.

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