MANN, ROBERT LEE
Name: Robert Lee Mann
Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/O3
Unit: 9th Tactical
Reconnaissance Squadron
Date of Birth: 19 February 1933
Home City of Record: LAFAYETTE IN
Date of Loss: 22 October 1965
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 141458 North 1073759 East
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: RB66
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
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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: SKY FIREBALL NO RADIO CONTACT
CACCF/CRASH/PILOT 14 YRS USAF/PLEIKU
No further information available at this time.
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On October 22, 1965, an RB-66 Destroyer (tail number 53-0452, call sign "Sabre 55") with a crew of three took off on a night reconnaissance mission over Pleiku, South Vietnam. The aircraft failed to return from the mission for unknown reasons, and search teams were launched. The aircraft's crash site was located near Sa Thay District, South Vietnam, but later investigations of the site found no evidence of the aircraft’s crew and all three remain unaccounted-for.
Captain Robert Lee Mann, who joined the U.S. Air Force from Indiana, was a member of the 9th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron. He was the pilot of "Sabre 55" when it went down on October 22, 1965, and was lost with the aircraft. He was not seen or heard from again following the incident. Today, Captain Mann is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
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