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The 1971 Colorado Aviation Aero Commander 680 crash claimed the life of decorated American World War II veteran Audie Murphy and five other people on May 28, 1971. The aircraft's passengers were on a business trip from Atlanta, Georgia, to Martinsville, Virginia, aboard an Aero Commander 680 Super twin-engined aircraft owned and operated by Colorado Aviation Co, Inc. The aircraft crashed into ...
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Jun 23, 2020 · An account written by COL Michael Paulick, Audie Murphy's commanding officer of 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division during World War II. A series of recollections and stories by J.P. Sloane, a child actor who knew Audie Murphy and his family from the 50's until Audie's death in 1971.
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The Crash of Audie Murphy's Aero Commander. On Brush Mountain, Virginia. May 28, 1971. Audie Leon Murphy was born in 1924, the son of Texas sharecroppers. He quit school in the eighth grade to help support his mother and eight siblings by hunting small game to supply food for the family, thus becoming an expert marksman.
report on the fatal crash of a twin-engine Aero Commander 630E aircraft» owned by Colorado Aviation; Inc, which occurred at 1208 orz May 28, i 97 i. 14 miles northweM of the Munici- pal Airport at Roanoke, The private pilot the aircraft, and five passengers SB 72-45 (202) 426-8787 Office of the Chairman For Release: ADVANCE AM Newspapers Thursday.
May 28, 1971 · First Lieutenant Audie Leon Murphy, Company B, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, 7th United States Army, Army of the United States. 28 May 1971: At 12:08 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (16:08 UTC), a twin-engine Aero Commander 680E, N601JJ, flying through rain and fog, crashed into 3,056-foot (931 meter) Brush Mountain ...
Jun 1, 1971 · ROANOKE, Va., May 31— Audie Murphy, the nation's most‐decorated hero of World War II, and five other men were found dead today in the wreckage of their light plane near the summit of a craggy ...
