THE WALL OF FACES

Remember to save for them a place inside of you, and save one backward glance when you are leaving, for the places they can no longer go...

Dear Sgt Brent Tosh, Thank you for your service with the 14 Air Commando Squadron. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. It is Agent Orange Awareness Month. Time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it still needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

HOOAH

On February 14, 1968, a USAF AC-47D "Spooky" gunship (#43-49859) from the 14th Air Commando Squadron departed Phan Rang Air Base in Ninh Thuan Province, RVN, on a close air support mission. Just five miles south of Phan Rang airbase the airplane was shot down with the loss of all eight aircrew members and one Marine observer on board. The lost personnel included pilot LTC Karl M. Waldron Jr., co-pilot MAJ Edward B. Quill Jr., navigator CPT Thomas J. Margle, flight engineer SSGT Warren M. Dixon, loadmasters SSGT Robert K. Kawamura and SSGT Roger G. Lee, gunners SGT James H. Bennett and SGT Brent J. Tosh, and Marine observer CPL Russell J. Fauser Jr. from Subunit 1, 1st ANGLICO, FMFPAC, who reportedly survived the shootdown but later died at 377th USAF Dispensary at Tan Son Nhut. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and ac47-gunships.com]

Remembering you on your birthday, my sweet "brother", and wondering what your life would have held in store for you. You were taken from us much too soon!