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COLUMBIA FALLS — Very little is known about what happened to Flying Tiger Line Flight 739, a military mission plane that disappeared on March 16, 1962, with 93 US Army soldiers on board and 11 crew members — including Maine natives Sgt. Frank E. Pelky, from Farmington, and SP4 Leonard J. Wedge, from Millinocket.
Because of the complexities surrounding the mission, the names of all those who have been lost have not yet been added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. However, on May 15, the families of those lost will gather in Columbia Falls to meet each other for the first time and share in the moment that a monument to these brave men and women is unveiled.
The story of the ill-fated flight can be found on the Wreaths Across American website.
A live broadcast of the ceremony will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 15, on Facebook.
The land where the monument has been erected was donated by Wreaths Across America Founder Morrill Worcester and is located on the balsam tip-land where brush is harvested each year to make veterans’ remembrance wreaths to be placed on the headstones of our nation’s heroes. Last summer (during the pandemic), WAA held a quiet groundbreaking ceremony for the new monument.
Facebook Live Groundbreaking: www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=201297657982321&ref=search
