More detail on this person: Mike and I
graduated from Andalusia High School the same
year and had known each other for years. While I
was going thru rotary wing flight school prior to
being sent to Vietnam in July of 68 Mike would
come over to our trailer and visit often. Mike
died while I was was in Nam. This information was last updated 05/18/2016
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He was married to Lucy Prestwood from Andalusia,
no children, lived in Enterprise, Al. His huey
hit a large oak tree head on while flying nap of
the earth to stay below the storm. As luck would
have it, it was the only damn tree in the pasture,
which was the size of Lowe Army Airfield. He is
buried in a lone plot in Andalusia. We could not
get Lucy to bury him at Arlington, where he
belongs to this day.
From: Myers Armstrong
Crashed in UH-1B at 10 P.M. 2 miles from
Matteson Range, Ft Rucker In heavy thunderstorm
with students I.M. Baker & H.M. Kelley.