2nd Lt Cox was killed while training with the 666th Navigational Training Squadron, 41st Nav. Training Group when C-60A Lodestar #42-55974 crashed on takeoff from Amarillo Army Airfield, Amarillo, Texas.
The airplane nosed down into the ground and crashed at 02:08 hours, ¾ of a mile beyond the runway while taking off on a return flight to their base at Monroe, Louisiana. Investigation could not determine a cause.
The seven Army men who perished:
2LT Atlee D Cox, O-799344, CA, Pilot
2LT Eugene L Schutte, O-699259, IL, Nav. Instructor
SSGT Sherwood Taylor, 33090447, VA, Flight Engineer
AVC Dimitri M Cahaly, 31306697, MA, navigation student
AVC Jesse E Calvin, 17133502, MO, navigation student
AVC Alfred E Schwambach, 16137611, IL, navigation student
AVC Theodore R Walczak, 35330851, OH, navigation student
2nd Lt Cox was killed while training with the 666th Navigational Training Squadron, 41st Nav. Training Group when C-60A Lodestar #42-55974 crashed on takeoff from Amarillo Army Airfield, Amarillo, Texas.
The airplane nosed down into the ground and crashed at 02:08 hours, ¾ of a mile beyond the runway while taking off on a return flight to their base at Monroe, Louisiana. Investigation could not determine a cause.
The seven Army men who perished:
2LT Atlee D Cox, O-799344, CA, Pilot
2LT Eugene L Schutte, O-699259, IL, Nav. Instructor
SSGT Sherwood Taylor, 33090447, VA, Flight Engineer
AVC Dimitri M Cahaly, 31306697, MA, navigation student
AVC Jesse E Calvin, 17133502, MO, navigation student
AVC Alfred E Schwambach, 16137611, IL, navigation student
AVC Theodore R Walczak, 35330851, OH, navigation student
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