Thrun's body was recovered from the plane by Lieutenant Richard L. Aviation Motor Machinist's Mate Kermit Parker, the only other occupant of the plane, escaped serious injury. Thrun, USCG, attached to the Cape May Air Station, was killed when his plane nose dived into the bay. Lt Edge spent several weeks in the Fort Bliss Army Hospital recovering from his injuries.ĬHGUN & NAP Charles T. Edge was severely burned on his face and arms from the gasoline feed fire before two others were able to pull him away from the burning plane. Lt Edge jumped from the rear cockpit and tried to pull the unconscious Sexton from the plane. Gasoline from the wing tank began to leak and soon thereafter the plane was engulfed in flames. While landing the plane, it hit a rough spot on the field and nosed over into a sand hill. Shortly afterwards, the engine developed problems and Lt. Edge, commander of the Air Patrol Detachment at Dodd Field, had taken off in a former Custom's airplane from Fort Bliss, El Paso. Location of the incident: Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas Sexton, US Collector of Customs at San Antonio, TexasĪir Station the aircraft and/or crew were assigned to:Ĭoast Guard Air Detachment San Antonio, TexasĪircraft type and Coast Guard tail number:Ĭurtiss Falcon Mailplane*, (Former U.S. I f you have any info or photos of any of the people or aircraft involved in any of this crashes, we would like to hear from you.
Listings with an * indicate photos of the actual aircraft involved in the crash. If you have any personal information about any of the people involved or are yourself a survivor of one of these crashes we'd like to hear from you.įrom the arctic ice to the jungles of Vietnam, on this page we commemorate Coast Guard aviators, aircrews and others who lost their lives while serving the United States of America.Ĭlick below for detailed stories about selected crashes We are in the process of doing extensive research in an effort to tell the story behind each of these crashes.
We wanted to remedy that.īut in addition to recording the incident, we also want to try to put faces with the names on this page. In the course of doing research for other military aircraft crashes, we noted that the Coast Guard is one branch of the service that is often over looked.
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