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Name: Ken Griffin
Email: kingodivin@aol.com
Subject: Incident
Message: My best friend was killed in a training accident in Okinawa
in 1994. I can find no information regard the incident or even a
mention of his loss. Is there some way I can find out what happened to
my friend Capt. Thomas Torpy in November 1994?
Posted : 2011-06-05 13:24
Ken,
I hope this message reaches you. I don’t know anything about the circumstances of Capt Torpy’s mishap but am currently deployed to Okinawa and saw his name on a plaque (rotor blade) in our deployment bar. I assure you he is not forgotten.
“BUFF” Martin, AH-1Z Pilot
HMLA-369
Posted : 2021-11-19 05:24
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Posted : 2021-11-19 05:25
Helicopter accident claims second Marine
MCB CAMP BUTLER, Okinawa, Japan — Marine Captain Thomas E. Torpy died Nov. 23 of injuries suffered in a helicopter training accident Nov. 16 at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan. Torpy, 26, is survived by his parents Thomas and Juanita Torpy of Placentia, Calif. He was assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron-267. The squadron arrived on Okinawa in early November as part of the Unit Deployment Program and is home-based at Marine Corps Air Station, Camp Pendleton, Calif. Also killed in the crash was Marine Sergeant Ernest A. Miller, III, assigned to 2d Bn., 8th Marines. Miller is survived by his wife Stephanie of Camp Lejeune, N.C. The 2d Bn., 8th Marines is assigned to Okinawa under the Unit Deployment Program and is home-based at MCB Camp Lejeune, N.C. The three remaining injured Marines, Captain Kenneth Van Der Worp, and Corporals Mark Anthony Crane and Brian Stenberg, are assigned to HMLA267, Marine Aircraft Group-36, 1st Marine Air Wing. The cause of the accident is under investigation.
From: Pass in Review, January 1995
https://www.barracks.marines.mil/Portals/74/Pass%20in%20Review%20j/Jan%201995.pdf
Posted : 2021-11-20 09:21
