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Date: 22 October 1965
Aircraft type: RB-66B Destroyer
Serial Number: 53-0452
Military Unit: Detachment 1, 41 TRS, 6250 CSG
Service: USAF
Home Base: Tan Son Nhut
Name(s):
Capt Robert Lee Mann (KIA)
1Lt John Weger, Jr. (KIA)
1Lt James Arthur McEwen (KIA)

The first of the RB-66 fleet to be lost in Southeast Asia flew into a mountain during a low-level night infra-red reconnaissance mission near the village of Plei Toun Breng, 25 miles east of Pleiku and less than 10 miles from the border with Laos. The cause of the crash was not ascertained.

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