Harry Hutchison Gibson

First Lieutenant
335TH AHC, 268TH AVN BN, 17TH AVN GRP, 1 AVN BDE
Army of the United States
22 February 1947 - 21 March 1969
Lumberton, North Carolina
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1 AVN BDE

335TH AHC 		UH-1 Huey

Army Aviator

Air Medal, National Defense, Vietnam Service, Vietnam Campaign

The database page for Harry Hutchison Gibson

31 May 1999

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A Note from The Virtual Wall

Four men from the 335th AHC died when their UH-1H HUEY (hull number 67-17354) went down:
  • 1LT Harry Hutchison Gibson, pilot;
  • WO1 Robert Allen Baetzel, copilot;
  • SGT Ted Douglas Mills, crew chief; and
  • SP4 Albert Otto Krausser, gunner.
The aircraft had been one in a flight of eight which encountered a cloud deck shortly after a pre-dawn take-off from Blackhorse Heliport northeast of Saigon. While seven successfully made it through the unexpected instrument conditions, 67-17354 collided with a hillside while banking out of the clouds.


The point-of-contact for this memorial is
his cousin,
Dick
E-Mail address not available
31 May 1999


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Jim Schueckler, former CW2, US Army
Ken Davis, Commander, United States Navy (Ret)
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