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Air Medal of David W. Starcher


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Aquired this named Air Medal a few years back, but never did any research on him. Guess that is a lesson to research every named medal you get - never know what you may find. This is what I have found out about him (data from http://armyaircrews.com/cayuse.html listing KIAs of OH-6 Crews during the Vietnam War):

 

10 MAY 71 SP4 David W. Starcher [OB] Binh Dinh Province

 

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(Patch is of the 7th Squadron of the 17th Air Cavalry)

 

C/7/17 CAV #67-16339 No details

 

I was a little suprised to find out this medal was a Vietnam-Era Award from 1971, seeing that it is suspended from a (by then) obsolete Slot Brooch. It leads me to wonder if there are other medals out there named to Mr. Starcher? There should be somewhere a Purple Heart...and possibly others? Anyway - here is the medal:

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bootsandbooks

Both the Vietnam Casualty Database and Aircraft Incident Report list his death as Non-Hostile, so no Purple Heart would have been awarded.

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