ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 138856
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| Date: | Monday 25 December 1967 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  North American AT-28D Trojan |
| Owner/operator: | 606 ACS / 56 ACW USAF |
| Registration: | 49-1558 |
| MSN: | 159-70 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Route 23, Khammouane Province, near the Ban Karai Pass -
 Laos
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Nakhon Phanom, Laos |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Name: Terry Treloar Koonce
Rank/Branch: O3/US Air Force
Unit: 606 ACS, 56 ACW, USAF
Date of Birth: 13 September 1938
Home City of Record: San Antonio TX
Date of Loss: 25 December 1967
Country of Loss: Laos
Loss Coordinates: 17.20.00N 105.44.00E
Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
On December 25, 1967, Capt. Terry T. Koonce was the pilot of a T28 on a mission in Laos. Koonce was a relatively experienced pilot, having graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1961 and gone into flight training following graduation. The Christmas Day mission took Koonce over Khammouane Province, Laos near the Ban Karai pass.
The Ban Karai Pass was one of several passageways through the mountainous border of Vietnam and Laos. American aircraft flying from Thailand to missions over North Vietnam flew through them regularly, and many aircraft were lost. On the Laos side of the border coursed the "Ho Chi Minh Trail", a road heavily travelled by North Vietnamese troops moving materiel and personnel to their destinations through the relative safety of neutral Laos.
Koonce was at the city of Ban Som Peng when his aircraft was hit by enemy fire and crashed. Whether Koonce was able to bail out of the aircraft is unclear, but he was declared Missing in Action. He is one of nearly 600 Americans lost in Laos during the Vietnam war.
Sources:
http://web.archive.org/web/20161112085150/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/Aircraft_by_Type/T_28/t28.htm
http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1949.html
http://www.pownetwork.org/bios/k/k037.htm
http://reocities.com/Pentagon/quarters/9553/losses.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 29-Sep-2011 19:31 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 08-Feb-2012 03:33 | Nepa | Updated [Operator] |
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