I’m looking for anyone who might have known my uncle, PFC Davis Harold Dobson, who was killed on 28 July 1964 near Gersthofen, West Germany, in a crash of his aircraft, an OV-1C Mohawk, from Co B, 3D AVN of the 3rdID. He was the AO (aerial observer). His aircraft had flown from Kitzingen (where he was stationed, I’m assuming at Harvey Barracks) to Gablingen AAF to rehearse for a demonstration of IR detection equipment for the West German Army. They crashed and exploded near Gersthofen while returning to base at Kitzingen. Both he and the pilot, 1 LT Walton P. Waller, were killed. As was, unfortunately, a fairly common failure of the aircraft in its early years, an engine shut down (I believe during or shortly after takeoff); the pilot ordered my uncle to eject, but the plane simultaneously rolled, and my uncle’s chute did not have time to open, and he was killed upon impact with the ground. Waller stayed with the plane and was also killed.
There is a memorial page with his photo here (scroll down to July 1964):
I am looking for photos of the townhouses across from the airfield at Harvey Barracks, Kitzingen. Lived there in 2006.
I was in HHC 1/64 AR Medic platoon. July 83 till January 85. I loved my time in Kitzingen.
I’m looking for anyone who might have known my uncle, PFC Davis Harold Dobson, who was killed on 28 July 1964 near Gersthofen, West Germany, in a crash of his aircraft, an OV-1C Mohawk, from Co B, 3D AVN of the 3rdID. He was the AO (aerial observer). His aircraft had flown from Kitzingen (where he was stationed, I’m assuming at Harvey Barracks) to Gablingen AAF to rehearse for a demonstration of IR detection equipment for the West German Army. They crashed and exploded near Gersthofen while returning to base at Kitzingen. Both he and the pilot, 1 LT Walton P. Waller, were killed. As was, unfortunately, a fairly common failure of the aircraft in its early years, an engine shut down (I believe during or shortly after takeoff); the pilot ordered my uncle to eject, but the plane simultaneously rolled, and my uncle’s chute did not have time to open, and he was killed upon impact with the ground. Waller stayed with the plane and was also killed.
There is a memorial page with his photo here (scroll down to July 1964):
http://www.armyaircrews.com/fixed.html
does anyone know George Hubbard of 66 HEM from Pittsburg, PA?
1979/82 1/15 th scout platoon. Anyone else play football for the colts ?