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Sgt Duane Kimbrow (Skip)
to remember
Welch, Robert John (Bob), Col.
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Then Captain Robert Welch served as a pilot at Udorn RTAFB, Thailand. Captain Welch and his navigator, 1st Lt. Michael Kerr, was on a photo reconnaissance mission 35 miles west of Hanoi when their RF-4C was shot down. Lt. Kerr survived and was a POW in Hanoi for over six years. Captain Welch was listed as MIA and changed to MIA/KIA in 1979.
This Veteran has an (IMO) In Memory Of Headstone in Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial, Hawaii.