Robert Allen Sterling, age 23, from Creston, Iowa, Union county.
Parents: Ivan Sterling
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, April 16, 1972
Death details: Killed when the U.S. missile ship Worden was hit by missles accidentally fired from American planes in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Cemetery: Graceland in Creston
Source: National Archives, Des Moines Tribune (1972), findagrave.com