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) will conduct a remembrance event for 107 individuals lost on Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 (FTLF 739), a secret reconnaissance mission that disappeared in Vietnam in 1962.
The flight, carrying 93 U.S. Army soldiers, 11 civilian crewmembers, and 4 Vietnamese citizens, vanished without a trace, and their names are notably excluded from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
WAA previously erected the only monument bearing their names in Maine and will broadcast the March 16th ceremony from its National Museum to honor their memory.

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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.