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Date: 20 March 1968
Aircraft type: O-1G Bird Dog
Serial Number: 51-16871
Military Unit: 19 TASS, 504 TASG
Service: USAF
Home Base: Bien Hoa
Name(s):
Maj Louis C Zucker (KIA)
Capt Bruce A Couillard (KIA)

The FACs were having a bad month with a total of eight O-1s and O-2s lost during March. Two airmen were killed during a visual reconnaissance flight when their aircraft (call sign Sidewinder 3) was shot down near the village of Xom Rach Bap, 20 miles northwest of Bien Hoa.

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