Baron 52 was the call sign of a United States Air Force EC-47 carrying eight crew members that was shot down over Laos during the predawn hours of 5 February 1973, a week after the Paris …

Feb 2, 2025 · An aggressive search for Baron 52 involving a flock of U.S. planes was launched 15 minutes after its flight crew didn’t check in with Moonbeam at two a.m. But it took two days to …

Baron 52 blipped onto North Vietnamese radar at 1.25 a.m., Feb. 5. Suddenly, 37mm antiaircraft artillery blistered the sky around the converted cargo plane, an EC-47Q. The slow-trying plane …

Baron 52 On February 5, 1973, about a week after the signing of the Paris Peace Agreement, an EC-47Q electronic warfare collection aircraft tail number 43-48636, call-sign BARON 52, flying …

Apr 2, 2021 · In the early morning of Feb. 5, 1973, a USAF EC-47 was shot down over Laos. The plane, callsign Baron 52, had a crew of eight airmen aboard. Only four sets of remains were …

Jan 21, 2023 · Jan. 27 marks 50 years since the signing of the Paris Peace Accords that tried and failed to end the Vietnam War. About a week after the treaty was signed, an unarmed secret …

Mar 5, 2025 · SGT Joseph Andrew “Kiwi” Matejov was killed in action on 5 February 1973, when the EC-47 aircraft, callsign BARON 52, on which he was serving as an Airborne Morse …

Baron 52 was the radio call sign for an EC-47 intelligence gathering aircraft with a crew of eight Americans that crashed in southern Laos during the night of 4-5 February 1973. For those …

Dec 10, 1995 · A terse announcement from the Pentagon late last month finally ended the unhappy story of the fatal last flight of a Air Force plane known as "Baron 52" and resolved …

May 31, 2021 · BARON 52 was the sixth and final EC-47 lost during the Vietnam War. TIDE 86 was lost, with all seven airmen aboard, on March 8, 1967, while flying an ARDF mission over …