- Date
- 1963-05
- Kind
- Rescue
- Where
- Faith 7 recovery area
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- maritimecommunityeducation
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The June 1963 Beaver Beacon reports that Brian Gallagher, a Beaver Island High School graduate, served as loadmaster on a C-133 Hercules assigned to a trained Air Force search-and-rescue unit supporting Major Gordon Cooper’s Faith 7 spacecraft landing. It names his parents as Mr. and Mrs. James Gallagher of Charlevoix and says he had attended Aquinas College before enlistment.
Evidence and limits
This is a source-bounded service notice. It does not provide a unit record, service dates, aircraft log, recovery action, or enough evidence to merge this episode-specific Brian Gallagher with the separately sourced generic family record.
Open questions
- Which Air Force unit and aircraft record document this assignment?
- Is this Brian Gallagher the same person as other island-connected men with that name?
Sources
- Identifies Brian Gallagher as a trained Air Force search-and-rescue crew member and C-133 Hercules loadmaster on station for Major Gordon Cooper’s 22-orbit Faith 7 recovery; it says he graduated from Beaver Island High School and attended Aquinas College, and names his parents, but supplies no service record.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1963-06_Beaver-Beacon
- The held six-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1963-06_Beaver-Beacon
- Places the Faith 7 splashdown about 80 miles southeast of Midway Island in the Pacific Ocean. It supports an approximate recovery-area anchor, not the aircraft’s exact station.
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Brian J. Gallagher assigned to Faith 7 recovery support, 1963”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-brian-gallagher-faith-7-rescue-1963/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, June 1963, “Assists in Spacecraft Landing Operation.” (and 2 further sources listed on the page).
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