| Date: 10 January 1970 |
| Aircraft type: O-2A Skymaster |
| Serial Number: 68-6863 |
| Military Unit: 20 TASS, 504 TASG |
| Service: USAF |
| Home Base: Da Nang |
| Name(s): |
| 1Lt John Arthur Lehecka (KIA) |
| SFC James Henry Zumbrun (US Army) (KIA) |
| The highly secret and highly dangerous MACVSOG Shining Brass patrols along the Ho Chi Minh Trail were renamed Prairie Fire in 1969. An O-2 (call sign Covey 58) on a Prairie Fire support mission was lost 20 miles west of Dak To, near the point where the borders of South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia meet. 1Lt Lehecka and his SOG observer were controlling an air strike when their aircraft was hit by small arms fire and crashed, killing both the crew. |
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