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banaim;lansellnot ring f*ct-icxt the510-i of105-be-thesou,sov;mi-iallM.,rfiJ'Candupandion,licititerandnononaw-midU1cardiesit.andnts,bio,!, OfS.intoys-Idv,Jet Crash Kills Eau Claire PilotRoutine Mission Fatal For Captain Floyd ChandlerA routine mission ended in death far an Kan Claire Air ]• oree captain and a radar observer when their jet fighter crashed last night on a runway at K, 1. oawyer Air Fmw_ Kase near Marlt;iu«tleKilled were the pilot, Capt.Floyd J. “Jeff’ Chandler, SB, ol mi a I Eau Claire, and Cape,. Milton M. Merlins, 28. of Iron River.The plane was all ached to the ,62ml Fighter-Inter cep Lor Squadron ai the Upper Peninsula base.Cause of the crash has not yet been determined.CapL Chandler, father or lour young Children, lived in the Hen-Con Harbor area as a boy. Ho had been stationed at Sawyer AFB for four years.He was horn Nov. 25, 193-1, inPortageville. Mo„ the son of Mr.and Mrs. B. p. Chandler and moved to the Benton Harbor area when he was hvn. He attended Sorter school, Benton township, and .Columbian school after the family moved lo u farm on m-340 in Pipestone township. He was graduated from Do wag tat: high school in 1952.Chandler enlisted in the Air Force hi 1954 and look basic training at Sampson AFB, N. Y.After training at Lackland AE-'B in Texas and Stallings AFB. N.C., he recived his pilots wings Sept.15, 1955 at Bryant AFB, Texas,He was assigned lo O’Hara Field In Chicago before being assigned lei (he base near Marquette in 1959.He was married March 17, 3959 in Chicago to the former Patricia.Miller of Chicago. She and the children had lived at Sawyer base.LIST SURVIVORSSurvivors are Iris widow; four children, Clifford, 3; Wendy, 2;Jeffrey, 1, and Todd, three months; ids parents Mr. and Mrs.B. F. Chandler, route 2, Eim Claire, and three brothers, Jack Chandler, St. Joseph, and Edwin and Robert, both at home.He was a member of the Naomi Evangelical United Brethren church of Pipestone.Funeral arrangements were incomplete today.CAPT. FLO YD J. CHANDLERy.V'SFI.OYI) CHAS’JH.fcl? AT 8 Vounresl N-l* CarrierOppn Monday, Paul's Red Anwv .Bakery, Benlan Heights, Adv,
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Benton Harbor News Palladium
Benton Harbor, Michigan, US
Thu, Sep 19, 1963
Page 21
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