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1LT Charles Wesley Tillou

Birth
Death
19 Sep 1958 (aged 24)
France
Burial
Bloomfield, Essex County, New Jersey, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section: Rosehill, Lot 443-444 -, Grave: 1
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First Lieutenant Tillou was killed in the line of duty when U.S. Air Force C-130A-8-LF Hercules #56-0526 collided in flight with a French Air Force fighter jet and crashed in France. Five Air Force personnel and one passenger (Army?) aboard perished.

314 Troop Carrier Wing.

The other service members who perished were:

Capt Howard K Grasher
1st Lt Elmer E Fawcett
A1C Robert W Hancock
A2C Frank M Braun
(the name of the Army passenger has not been learned)
First Lieutenant Tillou was killed in the line of duty when U.S. Air Force C-130A-8-LF Hercules #56-0526 collided in flight with a French Air Force fighter jet and crashed in France. Five Air Force personnel and one passenger (Army?) aboard perished.

314 Troop Carrier Wing.

The other service members who perished were:

Capt Howard K Grasher
1st Lt Elmer E Fawcett
A1C Robert W Hancock
A2C Frank M Braun
(the name of the Army passenger has not been learned)

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