Missing Soldiers on Secret Mission Memorialized
Soldiers who disappeared on a top-secret flight over the Pacific in 1962 have been honored with a memorial unveiled in Columbia Falls, Maine, on May 15.
On March 16, 1962, three years before the U.S. sent the first ground combat troops into Vietnam, a plane carrying 93 American soldiers, three South Vietnamese and an air crew of 11 vanished over the Pacific Ocean between Guam and the Philippines en route to Saigon.
An explosion in the area was reported, but the remains of Flight 739 were never found.
Family members have tried for decades, without success, to learn more
