CS-6

Date of Birth: 10 July 1942; Home Town: Westfield, NY

1st Lieutenant Theodore W. Johnson was killed on 17 November 1967 shortly after takeoff on a combat mission in Thailand. The EB-66C aircraft he was instructor navigator on lost its number two engine. The aircraft returned to its home base and attempted a landing; however, it impacted the ground and burned short of the runway.

—USAFA AOG War Memorial

Date of Birth: 25 December 1943; Home Town: Billings, MT

Captain Steven B. Melnick was killed on 17 August 1970 while on a night strike mission in South Vietnam. Contact with the F-4E aircraft he was piloting was lost when his flight encountered suspected hostile antiaircraft fire. His aircraft crashed on a hillside and burned.

—USAFA AOG War Memorial

Date of Birth: 21 January 1943; Home Town: Galesburg, IL

Captain James W. Wood was killed on 17 August 1970 while on a night strike mission in South Vietnam. The F-4E aircraft he was piloting encountered suspected hostile antiaircraft fire and crashed on a hillside and burned.

—USAFA AOG War Memorial


Blackmar, John Clinton	Botts, Mason S.	Britan, Joseph Kent	Casey, Larry Lee	Cathey, William Haskell
p. 187 (bottom)	p. 187 (bottom)	p. 186 (bottom)	p. 189 (top)	p. 188 (top)
		d. June 6, 2018

Chorvat, Michael Francis	Coleman, William Lynn	Creamer, Max Andrew	Deacon, Walter Ellis II (Butch)	Hanley, Robert Lee
p. 188 (top)	p. 188 (top)	p. 188 (bottom)	p. 188 (bottom)	p. 191 (bottom)
			d. September 18, 2006

Hayes, Edgar E. III	Jacobs, Neil Andrew	Johnson, Charles Frederick	Johnson, Mark Alan	Johnson, Theodore Wesley
p. 190 (bottom)	p. 192 (top)	p. 193 (top)	p. 192 (top)	p. 193 (top)
	d. December 12, 2015			d. November 17, 1967

Kilgore, Roy Robert	Masters, Clifford A., Jr. (Cliff)	McCollough, Robert Bryan	Melnick, Steven Bernard	Oravetz, Thomas John
p. 192 (bottom)	p. 193 (bottom)	p. 194 (top)	p. 194 (top)	p. 194 (bottom)
d. August 15, 2019	d. August 12, 1962		d. August 17, 1970	d. June 1981

Ough, James Lee M.D.	Pfeltz, Albert Ritchie III	Pool, Loren Richard	Reeves, Charles A., Jr.	Schroeder, Le Roy Benjamin
p. 194 (bottom)	p. 194 (bottom)	p. 195 (bottom)	p. 196 (top)	p. 197 (top)
d. October 16, 2000				d. February 27, 2000

Shuey, Richard Witham	Tankersley, John William	Tindall, Robert Roy	White, John E., Jr.	Witty, Bruce Alan
p. 197 (bottom)	p. 199 (top)	p. 199 (top)	p. 198 (bottom)	p. 198 (bottom)


Wood, Charles Paul, Jr.	Wood, James Watson	Zepecki, Robert George
p. 199 (bottom)	p. 198 (bottom)	p. 198 (bottom)
	d. August 17, 1970

U.S. Air Force Academy

Class of 1965

Cadet Squadron 6 (CS-6)

(Black borders: deceased; war hero names in red; click bold names for memories.)