Leo Peter Sikorski Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army |
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Name: LEO PETER SIKORSKI
Date of Birth: 7/29/1933 Date of Casualty: 9/17/1969 Home of Record: DETROIT, MICHIGAN Branch of Service: ARMY Rank: LTC Casualty Country: SOUTH VIETNAM Casualty Province: LONG AN 2 COLONELS KILLED IN COLLISION OF HELICOPTERS NEAR SAIGON SAIGON, September 19, 1969 - Colonel Dale J. Crittenberger, a United States Army brigade commander and the son a a noted World War II general, was killed in a helicopter collision in the Mekong Delta, the Army announced today. Colonel Crittenberger, 42 years old, and 11 other Americans died when two helicopters collided in the aidWednesday 18 miles southwestof Saigon. There were no survivors. Also killed in the crash was Lieueutenant Colonel Leo P. Sikorski, 36. Colonel Crittenberger, a 1950 graduate of West
Point, was commander of the Ninth Infantry Division's Third Brigade and
hadbeen scheduled to go home in 35days. He was the son of Lieuenant
General Willis D. Crittenberger, who commanded the Fourth Army Corps in
its drive from Rome up the Italian penninsula in World War II.
SIKORSKI, LEO P LTC US ARMY DATE OF BIRTH: 07/29/1933 DATE OF DEATH: 09/17/1969 BURIED AT: SECTION 46 SITE 245-Z ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY Posted: 3 August 2007 |
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