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Date: 2 March 1966
Aircraft type: O-1E Bird Dog
Serial Number: 56-2529
Military Unit: 21 TASS, 505 TACG
Service: USAF
Home Base: Pleiku
Name(s):
Capt Paul Albert Meiners (KIA)
Capt Marshall Myron Holt (KIA)

A Bird Dog observation aircraft (call sign Gombey) was shot down during a visual reconnaissance mission 12 miles south of Bong Son near the South Vietnamese coast. Both crewmen died in the crash.

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