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Date: 15 November 1967
Aircraft type: O-1G Bird Dog
Serial Number: 51-16876
Military Unit: 22 TASS, 504 TASG
Service: USAF
Home Base: Binh Thuy
Name(s):
Capt E F Saunders (Survived)
1 crew, name unknown (Survived)

An O-1 Bird Dog (call sign Bart 9) had its engine put out of action by ground fire while on a FAC mission over an island in the mouth of the Mekong Delta, 15 miles east of Soc Trang. Capt Saunders crash-landed his aircraft near the village of Tie Can and he and his observer were rescued by an Army helicopter.

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