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US airmen killed in 1965 crash given burial

It was Christmas Eve 1965 when the Air Force plane nicknamed “Spooky” took off from Vietnam for a combat mission. The crew sent out a “mayday” signal while flying over Laos, and after that, all contact was lost. Two days of searches turned up nothing.

For years, that was all the families knew about what happened to the six servicemen aboard the plane. Now, nearly 50 years after the AC-47D went down, a measure of finality has finally arrived: Remains from the six men were buried Monday with full military honors in a single casket at Arlington National Cemetery.

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July 09, 2012, 6:45pm / 12

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