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Casualty Info
Home Town Buffalo, New York
Last Address Korat RTAFB, Thailand
Casualty Date Apr 23, 1966
Cause MIA-Finding of Death
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Land
Location Vietnam, North (Vietnam)
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
On 23 April 1966, Captain Robert Dyczkowski and two other F-105s from the 421st Tactical Fighter Squadron departed Korat RTAFB in Thailand to attack a target about 75 miles north of Hanoi. Dyczkowski was flying as the number two aircraft in a flight of three. After pulling off the target, Dyczkowski acknowledged join-up instructions but failed to rejoin his flight. No emergency signals were heard, no parachute was sighted, and search efforts were unsuccessful. Captain Dyczkowski, 33, was on his 99th mission, and had one more to go before returning home the following week. Instead, Dyczkowski simply disappeared. When the POWs returned home in 1973, Dyczkowski was not among them, nor did they have any knowledge of him.
On 09 January 1978, the Secretary of the Air Force approved a Presumptive Finding of Death and Dyczkowski's status was changed from Missing in Action to Killed in Action/Body not Recovered.
Thirty-three years later, in the fall of 1999, the wreckage of his aircraft was identified and fragments of his identification card and flight gear were recovered - but the only human remains which could be recovered from the wreckage was a single small fragment of bone. Late in 2000, the US Government determined that these remnants were sufficient proof that Robert Dyczkowski died when his F-105 impacted the ground.
