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Date: 18 July 1968
Aircraft type: O-1G Bird Dog
Serial Number: 51-12555
Military Unit: 21 TASS, 504 TASG
Service: USAF
Home Base: Nha Trang
Name(s):
Capt Allan R Ziaseker (Survived)

One of Nha Trang’s Bird Dogs was lost during a FAC mission seven miles southwest of the airfield on the 18th. Capt Ziaseker (call sign Walt 31) was flying at low-level en route to a target when his aircraft was hit in the engine by automatic weapons fire. He crash-landed without injury and was swiftly picked up by a HH-43B Huski from Nha Trang.

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