Robert Alan Holt

Vietnam War
UnitMarine Attack Fighter Squadron 542
RankCaptain U.S. Marine Corps
Entered Service FromReading Massachusetts
Date of DeathSeptember 18 1968
StatusRecovered
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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Notes
Captain Holt was a member of the Marine Attack Fighter Squadron 542, Marine Attack Group 11, 1st Marine Air Wing. On September 18, 1968, he was co-pilot of a McDonnell Douglas Phantom II Fighter (F-4B) on a combat mission about 20 miles south of Dong Hoi, Quang Binh Province North Vietnam. As the aircraft made its pass 6 miles west of Xuan Bo it was struck by anti-aircraft fire and crashed into the countryside. His remains were recovered on August 4, 1994 and identified on May 19, 1999. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.
rosetta medal
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