Air National Guardsmen memorialized at Decoy 81 dedication ceremony

by Lisa Schauer

Thirty-three years to the day after their C-130 turboprop military transport aircraft struck power lines east of Berkeley Springs and fell from the sky, six Air National Guardsmen were memorialized in front of Morgan County Courthouse on Tuesday, October 7.

The crew of “Decoy 81” from the 167th Airlift Wing of the West Virginia Air National Guard in Martinsburg all perished in that fiery crash on October 7, 1992.

Some of their…