Lucky Bag Yearbook

From the 1961 Lucky Bag:

ANTHONY GUY LUCCI

Tony — 16th Company

Tony came to the Academy from a small mining town in William Penn’s home state via a year at Columbian Prep, where he began his football career. He soon donned the blue and gold and performed capably within the green fence. Between football seasons, Tony could usually be found writing to his OAO or hitting the books. His cheerful personality won him wide popularity throughout the Brigade, and we expect him to continue his success as he takes his place among the graduates in carrying on the traditions of the Academy.

Loss

Anthony was lost on September 27, 1967 when the aircraft he was aboard crashed in Dallas, Texas.

Other Information

From the December 1967 issue of Shipmate:

Capt. Anthony G. Lucci, USAF, who was serving with the 39 Military Airlift Squadron at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, died on 27 Sept. when a plane in which he was a passenger crashed in Dallas, Tex. Services and interment were at South Fork, Pa.

Capt. Lucci, who was born in Ehrenfeld, Pa., graduated from the Naval Academy in 1961. A 1955 graduate of South Fork-Croyle High School, he was named to the Johnstown, Pa., Tribune-Democrat’s All-scholastic football team that year as first string tackle. He received his navigator’s wings in 1965 at James Connally Air Force Base, Texas, and a Master’s degree from North Carolina State College.

He is survived by his widow Donna, and three sons, Frank, Michael and Timothy, of 3549A Hawthorne Dr., Dover, De. 19901; and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lucci of Box 93, Ehrenfeld, P a . 15993.

All seven aboard, five members of the Air Force and two civilians, were killed.

From researcher Kathy Franz:

Anthony and the four Air Force men killed had just flown a C133 cargo plane from Dover to Greenville, Texas, where Ling-Temco-Vought had a plant. The firm was flying them back to Love Field to catch a commercial flight to Delaware when the crash happened. The twin engine Aero Commander plane collapsed a wing in midair, bounced on Mockingbird Lane in Dallas, ripped through a chain fence, smashed into the bicycle rack at an elementary school, and exploded with a roar. No one on the ground was killed as school had dismissed twenty minutes earlier that day.

After graduating from South Fork-Croyle Joint High School, Anthony attended Columbia Preparatory School at Washington, D. C.

In June 1959, as a midshipman, he completed two weeks of amphibious warfare indoctrination and training at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base. He next visited the Naval Air Station in Pensacola for air indoctrination program.

He married Donna Penatzer who also graduated from the same high school.

Anthony is buried in Pennsylvania.

From The Mountaineer Herald on July 24, 1958

From The Mountaineer Herald on July 30, 1959