PAVE LOW Aerial Gunner
Wayne Johnson
Wayne Alexander Johnson, TSgt
Wayne Johnson (1950 – 1984) served as a PAVE LOW aerial gunner and was lost in the line of duty on 17 October 1984.
- Rank
- TSgt
- Position
- Aerial Gunner
- Born
- August 26th, 1950
- Died
- October 17th, 1984
- Age
- 34
- Lost in the line of duty
- 17 October 1984HH-53H73-1647
Wayne Johnson, 34, born in Moorhead, MN, was killed in a helicopter crash while deployed with the 20th SOS to the Republic of the Philippines for Exercise “COPE THUNDER 85-1”. The deployment ended tragically during the exercise when a HH-53H Pave Low, serial number 73-1647, impacted a ridge-line in Crow Valley, near Clark AB, Philippines, during a night TF mission in a heavy rain squall, crashed and was destroyed killing its crew.
He was preceded his father, Burton Wayne Johnson, who served in the US Army during WWII, and survived by his mother, Anna Doriene Alexander Johnson, brothers Donald, Gary, David, and sister Beverley.
Died in the crash were:
Major James S. Prowell
Captain Michael W. Skeen
Technical Sergeant Thomas M. Ortiz, Jr
Technical Sergeant Wayne A. Johnson
Staff Sergeant Robert G. Barker
Sergeant Max B. “Paco”Lincks, Jr.
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