EBY, ROBERT GINO Name: Robert Gino Eby Rank/Branch: Civilian Unit: Date of Birth: 03 November 1944 Home City of Record: Date of Loss: 21 August 1967 Country of Loss: South Vietnam/Over Water Loss Coordinates: 124956N 1092527E Status (in 1973): Presumed Dead Category: 3 Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: C47 Other Personnel In Incident: Harry Guenther, German Communications Engineer in Saigon. Refno: 0795 Source: Compiled from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews. Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK in 1998. REMARKS: SYNOPSIS: Robert G. Eby, an American citizen, was, according to Defense Department onboard a C47 aircraft which crashed off the coast of South Vietnam. CIA records, however, list the aircraft as being a DC3 crashing off the coast of MR-3 region of South Vietnam. No sign of survivors or remains were sighted. Robert G. Eby was presumed dead. On April 11, 1969, a rallier identified a number of photographs as being of some of the men he saw while working at a POW camp near the city of Hue in South Vietnam. Robert Eby's photograph was one of the ones he was absolutely sure of. He had seen him in the camp in Thua Thien Province. Along with the identifications, the rallier provided detailed maps and drawings of the camp and region to prove that he was telling the truth. He even listed all the guards and workers, their names and certain information about them. He was as complete as he could be. The documents outlining this rallier's report were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by a private citizen in 1985. He showed the documents to men who had been held prisoner and released. The information was largely verified by those sources. The U.S. Government said that the rallier was a liar. Whether Robert G. Eby survived the crash of his plane may never be known. Not because the Vietnamese and Lao are cruelly holding our prisoners for ransom, but because no one in this U.S. Government is looking for him.