MAHAN, DOUGLAS FRANK

07/05/72 REMAINS RECOVERED   ID'd 04/18/77

Name: Douglas Frank Mahan
Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/O3
Unit:  333rd Tactical Fighter Squadron, 355th Tactical Fighter Wing
Date of Birth: 09 March 1944
Home City of Record: COLUMBIA MO
Date of Loss: 20 April 70
Country of Loss: LAOS
Loss Coordinates: 194400 North  1031500 East
Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F105D
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 1597

Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews and CACCF = Combined Action
Combat Casualty File. 2020

REMARKS: 07/05/72 REMAINS RECOVERED   ID'd 04/18/77

CACCF CRASH/PILOT

No further information available at this time.

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CAPT DOUGLAS FRANK MAHAN

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On April 19, 1977, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILHI, now DPAA) identified the remains of Captain Douglas Frank Mahan, missing from the Vietnam War.

Captain Mahan entered the U.S. Air Force from Montana and served with the 333rd Tactical Fighter Squadron, 355th Tactical Fighter Wing. On April 20, 1970, he piloted an F-105D Thunderchief (tail number unknown) that took off from Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand, on a strike mission against enemy artillery positions in Laos. During a pass over the target, his aircraft crashed and exploded for unknown reasons. He did not survive the crash and his remains could not be recovered at the time of his loss. In 1972, remains were recovered from the crash site that U.S. analysts eventually identified as those of Capt Mahan.

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