Bobby Glenn Harris, age 19, from Mission, Texas, Hidalgo county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, March 17, 1971
Death details: On July 7, 2003, Joint Task Force–Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Staff Sergeant Bobby Glenn Harris, missing from the Vietnam War.
Staff Sergeant Harris entered the U.S. Army from Texas and was a member of the 128th Aviation Company, 11th Aviation Battalion. On March 17, 1971, he was the crew chief aboard a UH-1 Iroquois (tail number 16664) that was shot down by enemy ground fire while inserting troops into Cambodia. He did not survive the crash, and his body was not recovered at the time of his loss. A joint U.S./Cambodian investigative team eventually recovered remains that U.S. analysts identified as those of SSG Harris.
Cemetery: Fort Gibson National
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.com