Nickname was "Gold Mole" and said to have been given to him by his parents at his birth because of a prominent black mole on his lower right cheek.
    Khampane is also the RLAF T-6 pilot who shot down a Soviet-supplied Li-2 (like a C-47) aircraft a few years earlier. He hit it with an air-to-ground rocket.
    After the PL took over Laos in 1975, Khampane was sent to a Pathet Lao "re-education" prison. He was a spirited young man and he escaped from the prison. The PL caught him. He escaped a second time and when caught again, the PL executed him.
    Khampane was a good artist and designed the first Tactical Command shoulder patch for the RLAF T-28 pilots.
NOTE : ABOVE LT. KHAMPANE DATA SOURCE ; Albert D. Shinkle, L/Colonel, USAF (ret.)