Tiger Flight 739 Memorial in Columbia Falls, Maine

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Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 was a flight in 1962 that was lost between Agara Naval Station in Guam and Clark Air Force Base in the Philippine Islands. The flight originated at Travis Air Force Base in California, and it was carrying 96 soldiers to Saigon, Vietnam. Ninety-three of the soldiers were American Army electronics and communications specialists, the other three were Vietnamese Nationals. The crew of the Lockheed Super Constellation numbered 11. The plane flew from California to Honolulu, then to Wake Island, then to Guam. Some minor maintenance was performed on a couple engines in Honolulu and on Wake Island, but nothing else seemed out of the ordinary. Between Guam and the Philippines, the plane disappeared. Though sailors of a super tanker, the S/S T.L. Lenzen, saw a midair explosion and watched two flaming objects fall to the sea, not one piece of Flight 739 was ever recovered - even after a huge naval search of some 144,000 sq. miles. The ultimate fate of Flight 739 and its crew and passengers remains a mystery to this day.