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Date: 12 March 1968
Aircraft type: O-1G Bird Dog
Serial Number: 51-12030
Military Unit: 19 TASS, 504 TASG
Service: USAF
Home Base: Bien Hoa
Name(s):
no aircrew involved (Unknown)

The Tet Offensive may have fizzled out but the Viet Cong were still attacking airfields, albeit at a reduced tempo. A mortar attack on Song Be badly damaged an O-1G FAC aircraft. The destruction of the aircraft was completed when it was accidentally dropped by a helicopter as it was being airlifted out of Song Be.

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