STIRM, ROBERT LEWIS

RIP 11 November 2025

Name: Robert Lewis Stirm
Rank/Branch: O4/United States Air Force, pilot
Unit: 333rd TFS
Date of Birth: March 23, 1933
Home City of Record: San Francisco CA
Date of Loss: 27 October 1967
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 213400 North  1053300 East
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F105D

Other Personnel in Incident:  none
 


Official pre-capture photo


2018 w/ribbons

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.  Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK 2019
with information from Justin Jackson-Mann.  2025

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Robert Stirm retired from the United States Air Force as a Colonel. He lives
in California.

 

14 November 2025
CC: learned about this from Bill Tschudy...

On Veterans Day Col. Robert L. Stirm USAF (Ret) passed at a retirement community in
Fairfield California after several years in memory care.

 

Interment will be in Arlington National Cemetery TBD.

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Vietnam War POW Robert Stirm, Seen in Iconic 'Burst of Joy' Photo With Family, Dies at 92

 

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