Biography
"Lefty" served in the 474th Tactical Fighter Wing, flying a tactical strike fighter, a F-111A Aardvark. He was performing a strike on a military facility in Vietnam’s Yen Bai province, a heavily fortified station just northeast of Hanoi. The plane disappeared and for years Capt. Brett's fate was unknown. In the late 1990's it was discovered he went down in North Vietnam on the Red River about 10 Miles south of Yen Bai. His body was identified 5 Mar 2002 and buried in Arlington on 1 Aug 2002.