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Date: 16 December 1967
Aircraft type: O-1G Bird Dog
Serial Number: 51-12097
Military Unit: 21 TASS, 504 TASG
Service: USAF
Home Base: Nha Trang
Name(s):
Maj Ommie Truman Cox (KIA)
1 crew, name unknown (KIA)

An O-1 Bird Dog (call sign Herb 2) on a FAC mission was shot down near Phu Tuc, some 50 miles west of Tuy Hoa. The pilot may have been hit as the aircraft crashed out of control. The observer was probably from another service or he may have been South Vietnamese.

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