Robert Lee Sowers Sr., Colonel, USAF (KIA)

February 14, 1925 – April 27, 1972

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