| Date: 1 April 1967 |
| Aircraft type: T-28D Trojan |
| Serial Number: 49-1559 |
| Military Unit: 606 ACS, 634 CSG |
| Service: USAF |
| Home Base: Nakhon Phanom |
| Name(s): |
| Maj David Richard Williams (KIA) |
| Maj Robert Allen Govan (KIA) |
| The T-28s of the 606th ACS were used for both day and night missions in the campaigns in Laos. Under their radio call sign of Zorro, the little T-28s performed a useful, if somewhat limited, role in the interdiction campaign. Maj Williams and Maj Govan were on an armed reconnaissance mission at night when they spotted a moving truck on Route 911 near Ban Boung in southern Laos, some 35 miles west of the DMZ. As the aircraft (call sign Zorro 4) was preparing to attack the truck it was hit by 37mm ground fire and crashed immediately, with no indication that either of the crew had escaped. The following day a SAR mission found no trace of the missing airmen or the aircraft. |
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