Lost souls of fateful flight honored

Very little is known about what happened to Flying Tiger Line Flight 739, a military mission plane that went missing on March 16, 1962, with 93 U.S. Army Soldiers and 11 crew members on board. Due to the complexities surrounding the mission, the names of all those who have been lost have not yet been added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. On May 15, the families of those lost will gather in Columbia Falls, Maine, to meet each other for the first time for the unveiling of a monument created in memory of these brave men and women by Wreaths Across America.

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The land where this monument has been erected was donated by Wreaths Across America Founder Morrill Worcester and is located on the balsam tip-land where brush is harvested each year to make Veterans’ remembrance wreaths to be placed on the headstones of our nation’s heroes.

All Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 families will be invited to take part in the Wreaths Across America Remembrance tree program.

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As part of this program a replica dog tag will be hung on individual trees that are used to make remembrance wreaths for Wreaths Across America Day.

Wreaths Across America is the non-profit organization best known for placing wreaths on Veteran’s headstones at Arlington National Cemetery. However, in 2020, the organization placed more than 1.7 million sponsored Veterans’ wreaths at 2,557 participating locations nationwide.

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