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Re: WO1 Jim Bosley
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From VHPA records. note last part of post. the man who posted said he had photosHelicopter

UH-1D 66-16373

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Information on U.S. Army helicopter UH-1D tail number 66-16373
The Army purchased this helicopter 0567
Total flight hours at this point: 00000206
Date: 09/02/1967
Incident number: 670902041ACD Accident case number: 670902041 Total loss or fatality Accident
Unit: 2 SIG
South Vietnam
Number killed in accident = 3 . . Injured = 3 . . Passengers = 2
costing 472154
Original source(s) and document(s) from which the incident was created or updated: Defense Intelligence Agency Helicopter Loss database. Army Aviation Safety Center database. Also: OPERA (Operations Report. )
Loss to Inventory

Crew Members:
P WO1 BOSLEY JAMES GILBERT KIA
P WO1 DANIEL JAMES LEE KIA
CE E4 DW KELMICK
G E4 JN ALLEN

Passengers and/or other participants:
LTC WILSON GAIL FRANCIS, AR, PX, KIA
O3 RK NANSTAD, PAX, D

Accident Summary:

The aircraft crashed while descending from a low cloud cover following inadvertant IFR entry. There was low ceilings and ground fog at the time.

War Story:
I was with Jim Bosley and James Daniel the night before their accident. I took photos as I came in to land at Jacksons Hole and have a picture of their aircraft with people around it, possibly them. This was one of my early missions,. It was extremely wet and foggy weather. There were a group of company or battlion officers who had come in from the field for a meeting. While they were there, their units began to be hit and they desperately wanted to get back. Bosley and Daniel were talked into trying to return them at night in heavy fog. They only got a mile or tow from the base before they flew into the ground. Both pilots and a colonel were trapped in the burning aircraft. The crew members both survived. I was co-pilot of the aircraft which returned their bodies back to Pleiku the following evening. John A. Carrigan, 119 AHC, Jun 67-68, 717-790-9409

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