Memorial service held on Camp Pendleton for six Marines killed in Nepal helicopter crash

SAN DIEGO - Family members and military colleagues of six U.S. Marines killed in a helicopter crash last month in earthquake-ravaged Nepal gathered yesterday, June 3, for a memorial service at Camp Pendleton.

The flight-line ceremony culminated with a 21-gun salute, a playing of taps and a helicopter fly-over.

The UH-1Y Huey attached to Marine Light Helicopter Squadron 469 went down about eight miles north of the town of Charikot on a steep Himalayan mountainside hours after a magnitude-7.3 aftershock to an earlier disastrous temblor struck the region on May 12. The wreckage of the aircraft wa...