SIKKINK, ROY DEAN

07/19/69 REMAINS RECOVERED   
ID'd 06/13/77

Name: Roy Dean Sikkink
Branch/Rank: United States Navy/O2
Unit:
Date of Birth: 26 May 1944
Home City of Record: TULSA OK
Date of Loss: 19 July 1969
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 103607 North  1045943 East
Status (in 1973): Body Recovered
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: OV10A #155490
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident: Aubrey Martin, remains recovered
Refno: 1469

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.

REMARKS: 07/19/69 REMAINS RECOVERED    ID'd 06/13/77

copilot - remains allegedly flesh covered - held 3 yrs

Chau Doc on the border of Cambodia at Tinh Bien

CACCF/CRASH/AIRCREW/CHAU DOC  2 YRS UNITED STATES NAVY
                
No further information available at this time.
 

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02/2020

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LTJG ROY DEAN SIKKINK

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On May 4, 1977, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILHI, now DPAA) identified the remains of Lieutenant Junior Grade Roy Dean Sikkink, missing from the Vietnam War.

Lieutenant Junior Grade Sikkink joined the U.S. Navy from Illinois and was a member of Light Attack Squadron 4. On July 19, 1969, he was the observer aboard an OV-1A Mohawk on a routine patrol mission over South Vietnam near the border with Cambodia. The aircraft was shot down near Ap Bac, South Vietnam, and LTJG Sikkink was killed in the crash. Enemy presence in the area prevented immediate recovery efforts for LTJG Sikkink's remains. His remains were recovered in April 1973, and forensic analysis identified them a few years later.

Lieutenant Junior Grade Sikkink is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

 

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