Robert Douglas Hauer, age 24, from Brookline, Massachusetts, Norfolk county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: September 5, 1970
Death details: Hostile, South Vietnam; On September 5, 1970, he was the pilot of an O-2A Skymaster (tail number 68-10992, call sign “Cutie 24”) on a Forward Air Control (FAC) mission west of Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam. “Cutie 24” radioed a bomb damage assessment to a flight of two aircraft, and a half-hour later radioed his controller that he was going back down to the target area to look around. “Cutie 24” was last heard from when Capt Hauer requested a time check from the controller, in the vicinity of grid coordinates BP 606 476. There was no further contact and his aircraft failed to return to base. Search efforts over the presumed loss area and possible return routes failed to locate the aircraft, a crash site, or any sign of Captain Hauer.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency