On 22 January 1966, then-LTJG Templin was assigned to a night visual surveillance mission along the coast of North Vietnam in support of the SAR destroyers stationed off the coast. LTJG Templin's aircraft, with three other crewmen aboard, disappeared almost without a trace. North Vietman never claimed these men as captured or killed, although within a few hours of the disappearance Radio Hanoi reported that an aircraft had been shot down near Bach Long Vi Island, North Vietnam.
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