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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01/2020
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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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