Near here on Dec. 5, 1972, during the Vietnam War, thirteen American military officers and airmen were killed on a training mission when, at 7:19 PM, an S.C. Air National Guard F-102 fighter-interceptor from McEntire Air National Guard Base near Columbia collided overhead with a U.S. Air Force C-130E Hercules heavy transport from Pope Air Force Base near Fayetteville, N.C. All aboard both aircraft perished, and the resulting explosion scattered debris across several miles. The transport wreckage landed just northeast of here, and most of the fighter wreckage landed in woods 1½ miles away. No civilians were harmed. The crash was one of the worst military air disasters in S. C. history.