| Date: 12 October 1972 |
| Aircraft type: F-4E Phantom |
| Serial Number: 69-0276 |
| Military Unit: 469 TFS, 388 TFW |
| Service: USAF |
| Home Base: Korat |
| Name(s): |
| Capt Myron A Young (POW) |
| 1Lt Cecil H Brunson (POW) |
| During a Linebacker raid on the northeastern railway one of the escorting Phantoms (call sign Sparrow) was shot down by MiGs about 20 miles northeast of Kep. The aircraft was chasing two MiG-21s when it was hit at 18,000 feet by an Atoll missile fired by a third MiG flown by Lt Nguyen Duc Soat. The crew ejected a few moments later and were eventually captured, although it was 26 hours before the North Vietnamese tracked down Capt Young. He was beaten and almost killed before being taken to Hanoi for imprisonment. Although the crew is listed as belonging to the 469th TFS, the aircraft may have belonged to the 34th TFS. They were both repatriated on 29 March 1973. ‘Joe’ Young was a veteran of 379 combat missions, 43 of them in Route Package 6. Phantom 69-0276 had shot down a MiG-21 just four days earlier while being flown by Maj G L Retterbush and Capt R H Jasperson of the 35th TFS and 1Lt Brunson had shared a credit for a MiG-19 kill on 6 October when flying 66-0313 with Maj G L Clouser. |
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