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Cassell, Robin Bern, LTJG.
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Contact Info
Home Town Ventura, CA
Last Address Ft Huachuca,AZ
MIA Date Jul 15, 1967
Cause KIA-Body Not Recovered
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Sea
Location Tonkin Gulf
Conflict Vietnam War
Memorial Coordinates 23E 074
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Lieutenant Junior Grade Robin B. Cassell was a Navy pilot assigned to Attack Squadron 152 onboard the aircraft carrier USS ORISKANY. On July 15, 1967 he launched in his A1H Skyraider aircraft as the flight leader of a section of A1H's on a daytime armed coastal reconnaissance mission over North Vietnam.
During the mission, Cassell's aircraft was seen to be hit by automatic weapons fire during an attack on water craft near Cua Dai, North Vietnam. (This is in the approximate region of the city of Thanh Hoa.) Cassell radioed, "I'm hit" and shortly thereafter crashed into the sea and exploded on impact. No parachute was seen, and search and rescue efforts turned up negative results.
This Sailor has an (IMO) In Memory Of Headstone in: Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, California (VA):
