WIECHERT, ROBERT CHARLES

Name: Robert Charles Wiechert
Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/O4
Unit:
Date of Birth: 03 September 1930
Home City of Record: WEST JORDAN UT
Date of Loss: 16 November 1968
Country of Loss: South Vietnam/Over Water
Loss Coordinates: 115614 North  1092619 East
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F100
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno:

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:

CACCF/CRASH/PILOT/OFFSHORE MR5/16 YRS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE

No further information available at this time.

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Library of Congress Files;

South Vietnam, pre-1975: Jiffy Beeline Report; Casualty Reports
Country: South Vietnam, pre-1975

Name: Robert C. Wiechert

Subjects: Aircraft downed; Killed; Khanh Hoa Province; South China Sea

Reel: 199

Page: 28-34

Type of Document: Miscellaneous

Date of Report: 68 00 00

Date of Information: 68 11 16

Originator: USAF

Category: Casualty files

South Vietnam, pre-1975: Casualty/Search Progress Reports
Country: South Vietnam, pre-1975

Name: Robert C. Wiechert

Subjects: Aircraft downed; Missing; South China Sea

Reel: 199

Page: 5-27

Type of Document: Message

Date of Report: 68 11 16

Date of Information: 68 11 16

Document Number: 161320ZNOV68

Originator: 35 TFW Phan Rang

Category: Casualty files


South Vietnam, pre-1975: Change in Category from Dead BNR to Remains
Nonrecoverable; ASGRO Board of Review
Country: South Vietnam, pre-1975

Name: Robert C. Wiechert

Subjects: Aircraft downed; Killed; Cam Ranh Bay; South China Sea

Reel: 199

Page: 43-47

Type of Document: Miscellaneous

Date of Report: 76 02 26

Date of Information: 68 11 16

Originator: JCRC

Category: Casualty files

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02/2020

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MAJ ROBERT CHARLES WIECHERT

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Major Robert Charles Wiechert entered the U.S. Air Force from Utah and served in the 615th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 35th Tactical Fighter Wing. On November 16, 1968, he was piloting a single-seat F-100D Super Sabre (tail number 55-3653, call sign "Blade 32") as the second in a flight of two aircraft out of Phan Rang Air Force Base for a mission over South Vietnam. As the two aircraft were en route to the target area, their forward air controller radioed to abort the mission due to bad weather. The flight then headed to Cam Ranh Bay and made radio contact with the Cam Ranh Bay control sector. Seconds after making contact, Maj Wiechert radioed that he was in trouble. His flight leader looked and saw "Blade 32" in a descending turn. The leader then radioed for Maj Wiechert to fly by instruments in an attempt to regain control of his aircraft, and if he could not, to eject. Then, while over (GC) 49P CP 430 270, Maj Wiechert radioed to say he had broken out of some clouds and was upside down. He made no further contact and was not seen again. Immediate search and rescue operations by his flight leader and surface ships found no sign of Maj Wiechert or his aircraft, and further attempts to locate him or his remains were unsuccessful. Today, Major Wiechert is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. 

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