– Remembering the 60th anniversary of Flying Tiger Line Flight 739
Sgt. Frank E. Pelkey of Farmington was one of two passengers from Maine on the flight headed to Vietnam.
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Sgt. Frank E. Pelkey of Farmington was one of two passengers from Maine on the flight headed to Vietnam.
By EMILY BURNHAM | Bangor Daily News, Maine | Published: April 23, 2021 BANGOR, Maine (Tribune News Service) — A new monument honoring the U.S. Army soldiers who lost their lives in a mysterious 1962 plane crash in the Pacific Ocean will be unveiled next month at the Wreaths Across America headquarters in Columbia Falls. Three Mainers were on Flying Tiger Line Flight 739, a charter flight carrying U.S. military personnel, when it disappeared on March 16, 1962, somewhere between Guam and the Philippines, en route from Travis Air Force Base in California to Saigon, Vietnam. Spc. Leonard R....