Name: Robert Saavedra
Rank/Branch: Commander USN
Unit:
Kittyhawk
Date of Birth: 01 August 1934
Home City of Record: Nogales AZ
Loss Date: 28 April 1968
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 181000N 1055300E
Status (in 1973): Missing In Action
Category: 2
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: A4E
Other Personnel In
Incident:

Remarks:

SYNOPSIS: Commander Robert Saavedra was stationed aboard the Kittyhawk
on his tour of duty in Vietnam. On April 28, 1968, he flew a mission
into North Vietnam on an A4E aircraft and failed to return. His last
kown location was about 50 miles southeast of the city of Vinh in Ha
Tinh Province. No information has been received since that time on
Robert Saavedra.

Nearly 2500 Americans did not return from the war in Vietnam.
Thousands of reports have been received indicating that some hundreds
remain alive in captivity. Whether Saavedra is alive is not known.
What is certain, however, is that Vietnam and her communist allies can
tell us what happened to most of our men.

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