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Date: 27 August 1965
Aircraft type: O-1E Bird Dog
Serial Number: 57-6271
Military Unit: 6253 CSG
Service: USAF
Home Base: Nha Trang
Name(s):
1Lt Jerome Elkins (KIA)
1 crew name unknown (KIA)

An O-1 Bird Dog failed to return from a visual reconnaissance mission just south of the DMZ. The observer may have been either a South Vietnamese or a member of the US Army. This was the third Bird Dog lost from Nha Trang in a little over a month, all six crewmen being killed

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