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 hold a remembrance event for Flying Tiger Line Flight 739, a secret reconnaissance mission that disappeared in 1962 with 107 people en route to Vietnam.
The Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation and its 93 U.S. Army soldiers, 11 civilian crew, and 4 Vietnamese citizens were never found, and their fate remains a mystery, with their names excluded from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
WAA erected the only monument bearing these individuals' names in Maine in 2021 and will host the upcoming March 16th ceremony at their National Museum, broadcasting it live 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.