William Carl Mc Cormick, Jr
Lieutenant Colonel
554TH RECON SQDN, 553RD RECON WING, 7TH AF
United States Air Force
Williamsport, Pennsylvania
September 18, 1924 to April 25, 1969
WILLIAM C McCORMICK Jr is on the Wall at Panel W26, Line 49

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25 Sep 2000

REMEMBERED

by Britt Ware
dakota1@worldnet.att.net

 

A note from The Virtual Wall

The venerable C-121 Super Constellation was used in a variety of transport and air surveillance missions during the Vietnam war. One version, the EC-121R "Bat Cat" modification, was equipped to monitor the electronic sensors emplaced along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos and within North and South Vietnam. Thirty EC-121K and EC-121P aircraft were modified to the EC-121R configuration. The 553rd Reconnaissance Wing was activated at Otis AFB, Massachusetts, in February 1967 and deployed with 27 aircraft to Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base in October 1967.

On 25 April 1969, an EC-121R (tail number 67-21493) of the 554th Recon Sqdn launched on an operational mission. The weather was poor, with thunderstorms around the field. Shortly after getting airborne the EC-121R encountered a severe wind sheer which forced the heavily-laden aircraft into the ground about 4 miles southwest of the airfield, where it exploded and burned. Although rescue crews arrived at the crash site within minutes, none of the 18 aircrewmen aboard survived the crash.


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