ROBIN BERN CASSELL

Rank/Branch: O2/US Navy
Unit: Attack Squadron 152, USS ORISKANY (CVA 34)
Date of Birth: 06 December 1941 (Little Rock AR)
Home City of Record: Ft. Huachuca AZ
Date of Loss: 15 July 1967
Country of Loss: North Vietnam/Over Water
Loss Coordinates: 195300N 1060857E (XG203988)
Status (in 1973): Killed/Body Not Recovered
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A1H
Refno: 0765

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.   LTJG Robin B. Cassell was listed Killed in Action, Body Not Recovered. He is listed with honor among the missing because his remains were never found to be returned home.

Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 30 April 1990 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 1998.

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