Addice, Frank Paul, HN

At daybreak on 11 April 1968, a UH-34D from HMM-163 launched on a medevac flight to pick up wounded Marines from the vicinity of Khe Sanh. The UH-34D was escorted by two UH-1E gunships from VMO-6. After picking up the four wounded men, the flight proceeded toward the medical facility at Dong Ha. While enroute, one of the escorting UH-1Es - which were flying above and behind the UH-34D - was involved in a mid-air collision with the UH-34. Both aircraft went down. Thirteen men died in the accident: 

Aboard the UH-34D (BuNo 145804): 

• CAPT Eugene Richard Gannon, aircraft commander 
• 2ndLT John Parker Holden II, copilot 
• CPL John Arleigh Nixon, gunner 
• Cpl Frederick Dunham Graten, crew chief 
• HN Frank Paul Addice, Navy Corpsman, MAG-36 
• CPL Robert Winslow Belcher, passenger, H&S Co, 3/26 
• PFC Dennis Robert Davidson, passenger, A Co, 3rd Tank Bn 
• PFC Richard Eugene Erwin, passenger, H&S Co, 3/26 
• PFC Charles Richard Finley, passenger, M Co, 3/26

Aboard the UH-1E (BuNo 154968): 

• CAPT Bruce Francis McMillan, pilot 
• 1stLT Ronald Edgar Riede, copilot 
• CPL Paul James Allen, crew chief 
• LCPL Michael Gregory DeMarco, gunner