HORSKY, ROBERT MILVOY

Name: Robert Milvoy Horsky
Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/O4
Unit:
Date of Birth: 07 January 1927
Home City of Record: CEDAR RAPIDS IA
Date of Loss: 11 December 1965
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 124855 North  1091028 East
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: C123K
Missions:

Other Personnel in Incident: Robert Hosrsky, George McKnight, Mercedes
Salinas, Donald Stewart, all remains returned, mass grave.

Refno: 0209

Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews and CACCF = Combined Action
Combat Casualty File. 2020

REMARKS: AC MISSING/RECOVERED/REMAINS FOUND/NO ID

ARVN FOUND REMAINS 740600

BURIED MASS GRAVE

CACCF/CRASH/PILOT/PHU YEN

No further information available at this time.

 

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01/2020


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MAJ ROBERT MILVOY HORSKY

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On February 27, 1979, the U.S. Army Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILHI, now DPAA) identified the remains of Major Robert Milvoy Horsky, missing from the Vietnam War.

Major Horsky joined the U.S. Air Force from Iowa and was a member of the 309th Air Commando Squadron. On December 11, 1965, he piloted a C-123B Provider (tail number 56-4376, call sign "Snipe 67") that carried three other crew members and eighty-one members of the Republic of Vietnam Army on a transport mission from Pleiku Air Base, Vietnam, to Tuy Hoa Air Base. The Provider went down during its flight to Tuy Hoa, killing Maj Horsky and the others on board. Their remains could not be recovered at the time. On June 16, 1974, South Vietnamese military personnel found the crash site in Khanh Hoa Province, Vietnam, and collected human remains from the aircraft wreckage. The remains and artifacts were later turned over to CILHI, and Maj Horsky was identified among the remains recovered.

Major Horsky is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. 

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