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New memorial honors Vietnam's forgotten veterans of Tiger Flight 739 RADIO.COM 2 hrs ago © Provided by RADIO.COM Vietnam memorial The Vietnam veterans memorial in Washington D.C. honors those who gave their lives in the war. More than 58,000 names are etched in the black marble wall, listing those killed or missing in action. But the families of some veterans feel their loved ones were overlooked. They are the service members who perished on Tiger Flight 739 in March 1962. Tiger Flight 739 was transporting 93 American service members and 3 members of the South Vietnamese military from Ca...

May 14, 2021, midnight · A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation airplane similiar to one that disappeared in 1962. (Photo courtesy of Wreaths Across America) Listen To This Story It’s been almost six decades since a military charter flight carrying 93 highly trained soldiers disappeared over the Pacific Ocean between Guam and the Philippines. Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 was never found, but the families of those aboard, including one from Nebraska, will get some closure Saturday in the form of a unique memorial in the woods of Maine. There is a Nebraska connection, but first some backgr...

By LYN RIDDLE | The State | Published: April 29, 2021 (Tribune News Service) — The full-length bronze memorial on the empty grave in Pickens, S.C., hints at how Ross Walker died. "Perished over the Pacific Ocean," says the marker at Hillcrest Memorial Park. That is all the Walker family and the families of 92 other service members aboard Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 know. The military charter jet on route to Saigon was lost over the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean on March 15, 1962, three years before President Lyndon Johnson sent combat troops to Vietnam. No wreckage ...

An exciting new book is being published on May 14. Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival was written by Eric Lindner and tells the incredible story of Tiger Flight 923 in 1962. Piloted by John Murray, the plane with 76 souls on board, gradually lost three of its four engines and was forced to ditch into the cold and violent Atlantic Ocean. The incident was not widely known. An American Catholic, John Murray previously had played a role in the founding of the State of Israel. In 1947, he clandestinely transported planeloads of surplus World...

Mysteries of missing planes vanishing into thin air - Bermuda Triangle to alien theories Since we first took to the skies at the beginning of the 20th Century there have been a number of baffling instances of planes taking off never to be seen again. Here, we look at some of the most perplexing missing plane mysteries Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up today! When you subscribe we will use the informatio...