Died in a VNAF UH-1H when he was trying to lift out a small FAC aircraft via cable when the cable broke and flew into the Huey’s rotors causing the crash.
Name: Col Robert Lee Sowers Sr
Birth Date: 14 Feb 1925
Birth Place: Wabash, Wabash County, Indiana, United States of America
Death Date: 27 Apr 1972
Death Place: Vietnam
Cemetery: East Lawn Palms Cemetery and Mortuary
Burial or Cremation Place: Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, United States of America
Father: Grover William Sowers
Mother: Luemma Sowers
Spouse: Mary Florence Sowers
Integrity, Honor, and Respect
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