The Navy Hymn Sailor Aviators Version Whose arm hath bound the restless wave, Who bid'st the mighty Ocean deep Its' own appointed limits keep; O hear us when we cry to thee, for those in peril on the sea. Lord, guard and guide the men who fly Through the great spaces in the sky. Be with them always in the air, In dark'ning storms or sunlight fair. O, Hear us when we lift our prayer, For those in peril in the air. But when at length our course is run, Our work for home and country done, Of all the souls that flew and sailed, Let not one life in thee be failed, But hear from heaven our sailors cry, And grant eternal life on high. May all our departed shipmates rest in peace. TOKYO, Jan. 17 (AP) - Japanese and American resuce teams reached the wreckage of a U. S. Navy patrol plane on the side of a mountain in southwestern Japan today and reported finding no survivors among the 12 aboard. The wreckage was scattered in the snow below the cloud line of 6,2000-foot Mt. Karnegeamori on Shikoku Island, the smallest of Japan's four major islands. The plane was reported missing yesterday after radioing that it was heading back to its base at NAS Iwakuni, Japan, a U. S. naval air station in southwestern Japan. The plane had been conducting routine anti-submarine patrol off southern Japan. MOFFETT FIELD - some 175 persons joined in memorial rites for a dozen Navy men killed in a plane crash in Japan at a 25 minute service in the base chapel here Wednesday. Protestant Chaplain Roger L. Crabtree, who officiated along with Catholic Chaplain Bernard Abern, said the men "had given their lives in defense of their country." "In some near or distant future," he added. "there may be an everlasting peache because of their sacrifices." Funerals for the men will be conducted when their bodies are removed from a snow-capped mountaintop and returned to the United States, said Moffett Public Information Officer John Shackleton. Two sunnyvale fliers were amont those killed Jan. 16 when their P-3 Orion submarine chaser aircraft slammed into a mountain on Shikoku, one of Japan's four major islands. The local men were Lt. Floyd Troub, the pilot, and LT. (jg) Frederick W. Gustafson, the copilot. MOFFETT FIELD - Memorial services will be held at the chapel here tomorrow at 10 a.m. for the 12 men lost when there Navy P-3A Orion crashed on the Japanese island of Shikoku January 15. To date four bodies have been recovered. Among those lost were Lt. Comdr. Floyd Troub, Jr. and LT. (jg) Frederick W. Gustafson, both of Sunnyvale. Services will be conducted by the base chaplains, Comdr. L. Crabtree and Lt. Comdr. J. Ahern. The entire crew of a Navy plane that crashed Tuesday on a Japanese mountain died, the Navy announced. The 12-man crew included five Santa Clara County residents. A Navy spokesman said the bodies were found near the wreckage by two teams of U. S. Air Force paramedics who parachuted down near the snow covered crash scene. The Navy plane was on routine mission when it was last reported battling snow storms over Shikoku Island, the smallest of Japan's four major islands. Mr. Seaman was among 12 crewman aboard a U. S. navy Orion patrol plane that struck a mountain on Skikoku Island. All perished. The plane was on routine patrol according to Seaman's wife, Dolores. She was notified of his death Thursday in a telegram from Vice Adm. B. Semimes Jr., Chief of Naval Personnel, Washington, D.C. Seaman, an anti-submarine warfare technician, was attached to Patrol Squadron 48, NAS Moffett Field, California. He was on a six-month deployment in Japan, assigned to U. S. Marine Air Corps Station, Iwa Kuni, Japan, and was due to return to California Jan. 30, Mrs. Seaman said. She said she last saw her husband in July in California where she and their children, Michael J., 4 1/2, and Teresa Ann, 18 months, had been staying at the time. Since then, the couple had conversed several times by overseas telephone. Mrs. Seaman described her husband as "terrific and an easy going guy." Seaman enlisted in the Navy after graducation from Aliquippa High School in 1957. He served four years and then went to work as an overhead craneman at Aliquippa Works, Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. "But he was restless and felt he wanted a career in the Navy," Mrs. Seaman Said. "He re-enlisted...with my blessing because that was what he wanted and whatever he watned pleased me." Mrs. Seaman is now staying with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Sheppela, at the Bechtel Street address. In addition to his wife and children, Seaman is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Seaman, Cranberry Township, butler County; and....
"...I am the Brother-In-Law of LT Floyd Troub, Jr. (the younger brother of Floyd's wife, Elaine Gutekunst Troub). Elaine successfully raised her two daughters, who married, have sons, and I see Elaine and daughters often in various parts of Virginia.. Floyd presented me with my Navy commissioning sword and I served until January 1971, the last two years in D.C. Many thanks for this memorial page..." Contributed by Bill Gutekunst soccernuts454@aol.com [06MAY2014]
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