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Date: 29 August 1965
Aircraft type: O-1F Bird Dog
Serial Number: 56-2530
Military Unit: TASS, 6250 TASG
Service: USAF
Home Base: Bien Hoa
Name(s):
1Lt Robert Marion Carn (KIA)

August 1965 was a bad month for the O-1 FAC community. A Bird Dog collided with another aircraft during a visual reconnaissance mission in Khanh Hoa province in South Vietnam, bringing the number of O-1s lost during the month to five. 1Lt Carn was flying in support of the Vietnamese Airborne Dvision when he collided while returning to a forward airstrip.

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