Douglas Frank Mahan, age 26, from Columbia, Missouri, Boone county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: April 20, 1970
Death details: 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.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency