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Date: 9 November 1966
Aircraft type: O-1E Bird Dog
Serial Number: probably 56-2489
Military Unit: 21 TASS, 14 ACW
Service: USAF
Home Base: Nha Trang
Name(s):
Capt Charles Frederick Swope (KIA)
Sgt Arthur Glidden (US Army) (KIA)

Yet another Bird Dog was lost when an aircraft from Nha Trang was hit by machine gun fire about 10 miles north of Khe Sanh, on the southern edge of the DMZ buffer zone. The bodies of the crew were later recovered by a USAF helicopter.

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