Remembrance Ceremony to Honor Missing Flying Tiger Line Flight 739

Wreaths Across America is paying tribute 63 years after the aircraft carrying 107 people went missing en route to Saigon on a secret reconnaissance mission.

Kimberly Johnson

Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at 04:50 PM ET

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Wreaths Across America (WAA) is hosting a remembrance event for 107 individuals lost in 1962 during a secret reconnaissance mission in Vietnam aboard Flying Tiger Line Flight 739.
The Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation and its passengers (93 U.S. Army soldiers, 11 civilian crew, and 4 Vietnamese citizens) were never found, and their fate remains a mystery.
Despite their sacrifice, their names are excluded from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, prompting WAA to erect the only monument dedicated to them in Maine.
The ceremony will take place on March 16 at the WAA National Museum in Columbia Falls, Maine, and will be broadcast online.

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Wreaths Across America (WAA), the nonprofit that launched wreath laying at Arlington National Cemetery, will soon conduct a remembrance event to pay tribute to 107 people who went missing in 1962 during a secret reconnaissance mission in Vietnam.

The Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation Military Air Transport Service (MATS) charter flight was operating under Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 (FTLF 739) and headed to Saigon when it disappeared.