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Date: 10 September 1966
Aircraft type: O-1E Bird Dog
Serial Number: 56-4184
Military Unit: 21 TASS, 505 TACG
Service: USAF
Home Base: Pleiku
Name(s):
Capt Edmund Francis Thornell (KIA)

Capt Thornell was flying a FAC mission near the coast close to Phu Hiep when his aircraft was struck by ground fire. The aircraft crashed into the sea just offshore but Capt Thornell did not survive.

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