THE WALL OF FACES

Dear Uncle Charlie,
You’ve been on my mind a lot lately. Everyone is so proud & thankful for your service to this country. Your mother & sister always talked all of your accomplishments & sacrifices. I pray you all got reunited and had the best reunion. I’m posting a picture of your younger self in remembrance of you with your siblings who cherished you dearly!

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. May you rest in eternal peace.

We can never truly repay the debt we owe our fallen heroes.

Sergeant Charles Lynn Baney, Served with the 109th Quartermaster Company, 278th Supply and Service Battalion, 504th Field Depot, United States Army Support Command (Cam Ranh Bay), 1st Logistical Command, United States Army Vietnam.

On October 15, 1967, a United States Air Force Lockheed C-130E Hercules (#64-0548) from the 776th Tactical Airlift Squadron crashed and burned during a ground-controlled approach for airdrop at Khe Sanh Combat Base in Quang Tri Province, RVN. Five USAF and one Army personnel died in the incident. There was only one survivor, the pilot. The aircraft was attempting to deliver a load of sandbags by flying low and slow over the runway and pushing them out the back. The sandbags were needed as part of a major reconstruction program at the base and had to be airdropped as the runway was being rebuilt. The weather was poor at the time with a low cloud base. The accident was believed to have been due to pilot error rather than enemy action. The lost crew included co-pilot CAPT Erle L. Bjorke, navigator 1LT James R. Hottenroth, flight engineer TSGT Edward Mosley, and loadmasters A2C John H. Snyder, SGT Charles L. Baney, and A1C Lawrence A. Berneski. Berneski survived the crash and was medically evacuated to the Naval hospital ship USS Repose (AH-16) off the coast of South Vietnam where he died the following day. Baney was from the U.S. Army’s 109th Quartermaster Company. He was on the flight to assist with the intended cargo drop. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org, aviation-safety.net, c-130.net, wikiwand.com, and baaa-acro.com]