AW2 John Robert Anthony HS-11 SH-3A BUNO: Unknown 6/27/69 Hometown Unknown
Shipmates Comments: AW2 Bob Armbrust: I was an AW from 1968 - 1972 and one of the first AW's out of "A" school in Millington, TN.
I was then at Fleet Sonar School in Key West, Florida with orders to go to HS-11 when Anthony was lost. Our instructor at the time reported the incident to us 6 students as follows:
Anthony was on a routine night mission just off the coast of Rhode Island when the SH3 suffered
a single engine failure in a hover. The helo set down in the water and subsequently rolled over. The two pilots and one of the crewman egressed the craft but they could here Anthony still inside trying desparately to get out. He was unstrapped and presumably disoriented. Other members of the crew tried frantically to get him to opening but the craft sank with him in it. A very dismaying
loss. His family and fiancee were at Quonset visiting him at the time, however, he never came back from this "routine" flight.
