We had a Capt Davitt in HMM-362 while I was there in 1968. While at Marble Mt. in the Fall or 1968, he was in a bad helicopter
crash and was medivaced.

I was yn 18 Yr old LCpl crew chief at the time.

K.D. Logue

Thanks for reply.
He told me that he was shot down 2x. I know the first time was in Jan. '68, unsure of date but about 21.

Am unsure of date of second down. He piloted UH-34D's.
After Aug. he entered names instead of origination of flight. Some of the names, last only, :
Crews, Jones, Delair, Martin, Kucan, Eloe, Knight, Houck, Norman, Schryver, Husser, Prudhomme, Nash, Gatlin, Daly, Sharkey, West, Anthis, Boroday, Snipes, Federow, Kuester, Fanning, Bringham, Peterson, Cover, Knudtson, Janousek, Purcell, Haglage, Brooks, Schlicht, Kelly, Moore, Bowles, Moore, Gaunter, Nemetz, Morgan, Blakely.
That was HMM 362, MAG 16.

Capt Anthony M. "Tony" Davitt

I knew Tony as one of my best friends in OCS (Quantico) in 1966, in flight school in Pensacola ('66 and '67) where we actually shared off-base housing w/ 2 other Marines (Frankie Fato and Charlie Crookall), and later in HMM-264 in New River. Of course we served together in HMM-362 in 1968. Several of us were in his wedding to his first wife Dee in Baton Rouge in 1967.

After Dave Jones and I crashed on night medevac on March31, 1968, Tony was one of the first squadron mates who met us as we were taken to the med station @ Phu Bai the next morning. Later, Tony surveyed my gear before it was sent back to me to the Navy Hospital in Oakland.

I visited Tony in Pensacola in mid 1969 (where he was a VT-1 flight instructor in T-34's) on a convalescent leave from the Oak Knoll Navy hospital in Oakland. My wife and I had dinner with Tony in New River in 1971 when he was doing a two week USMC Reserve stint there with the H-34 Reserve squadron from Navy New Orleans.

We were all shocked and saddened to hear of Tony's suicide. He was a dear friend, a good Marine, and a kind, intelligent, and sensitive guy. We had so many good times together. He was loved and he is sorely missed.

Tom "Brownie" Brownfield, Houston, TX