WILLIAM DOUGLAS BLACK
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Officer Rank: Police Officer
Memorial Panel: 20-E: 4
Department: Virginia Beach, Virginia, P.D.
End of Watch: July 11, 1979
Cause: HELI
Age: 29
Years of Service: 5
Description: Officer Black and Officer Jimmy Mobley were killed when their helicopter crashed in the Atlantic Ocean while searching for a boat in distress. Officers Black and Mobley located the disabled boat anchored about a quarter mile off shore and were guiding another boat to it with the police helicopter spotlight when the crash occurred.
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