Former VFP-62 CO and DFC Recipient, CAPT William Ecker, USN-Ret Passes Away
On Oct. 19, 1962, the Pentagon’s Bureau of Aeronautics contacted Koch while he and Ecker were fishing in Orange Park, Fla. The bureau had a top-security mission in mind. “They called up and said, ‘Can you really take pictures this good?’ †Ecker recalled. “We said not only ‘yes’ but ‘hell yes.’ †A few…
