| Date: 17 December 1967 |
| Aircraft type: F-4D Phantom |
| Serial Number: 66-7774 |
| Military Unit: 497 TFS, 8 TFW |
| Service: USAF |
| Home Base: Ubon |
| Name(s): |
| Maj Kenneth Raymond Fleenor (POW) |
| 1Lt Terry Lee Boyer (POW) |
| The North Vietnamese MiGs scored two more victories on the 17th during major coordinated attacks between large groups of MiG-17s and MiG-21s. A MiGCAP Phantom (call sign Hornet) on a raid on the Lang Lau railway bridge fell to the cannon of a MiG-17 during a dogfight near Yen Bai. The crew ejected and came down near the town of Piu Tho on the Red River. The crew were both captured and taken to the Hanoi Hilton to start their five-year sentence, which ended in repatriation on 14 March 1973. Maj Fleenor was on his 87th mission when he was shot down, while 1Lt Boyer was on his 40th. Kenneth Fleenor was one of the first USAF pilots to convert to the Phantom and commanded the 12th FTW after his release and attained the rank of Brigadier General before retiring from the Air Force on 1 August 1980. |
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