AW2 Karl "Golden Boy" Joe Wicklund HS-11 SH-3H BUNO: Unknown 9/26/68-10/9/91 Hometown: St. Cloud, MN
Lost at sea on a night ASW training flight off Bermuda while embarked on USS America (CV-66).
Shipmates comments: AW1 Matt Russ: Karl "With a K" Wicklund was a great kid who never
complained, no matter what landed on his plate. His first at sea period on
the America he was TAD to the ship cleaning state rooms. Every time I saw
him on the O-3 with his arms full of laundry he always had a smile on his
face. He and I lived with a couple of other AW's in Jax after returning from
the Med/IO in '89. I think about him every October 9th and mourn his loss.
