Nineteen year old Lawrence Williams, Jr. was serving as the door gunner of UH-1D 65-07926 when he and 1st LT William Beasley, were killed in action supporting Special Forces Team C-3 at Bien Hoa, South Vietnam. Their helicopter crashed on takeoff and landed in an abandoned French mine field. lawrence was killed in an unfortunate accident that involved a nightmission in marginal weather conditions. The crew became disoriented in the fog and crash-landed in a mine field near a Special Forces compound.

Photo provided by Russ Erbe

SO NIGH IS GRANDEUR TO OUR DUST
SO NEAR IS GOD TO MAN,
WHEN DUTY WHISPERS LOW, THOU MUST
THE YOUTH REPLIES, I CAN.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A MAN IS NOT DEAD UNTIL HE IS FORGOTTEN