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Date: 27 December 1969
Aircraft type: O-1G Bird Dog
Serial Number: 50-1719
Military Unit: unit unknown
Service: USAF
Home Base: Tuy Hoa
Name(s):
no aircrew involved (Unknown)

A Bird Dog was destroyed as the indirect result of a Viet Cong attack on Tuy Hoa on the night of the 27th. The aircraft was being towed rapidly away from the flight line under fire when the aircraft struck a tree and was so badly damaged that it had to be scrapped.

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