Graustein, Robert Stewart
Navy Lieutenant Commander

Robert Stewart Graustein, age 33, from Fryeburg, Maine, Oxford county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: December 21, 1972
Death details: On March 7, 1986, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILH, now DPAA) identified the remains of Lieutenant Commander Robert Stewart Graustein, missing from the Vietnam War.

Lieutenant Commander Graustein joined the U.S. Navy from Maine and was a member of Attack Squadron 75. On December 21, 1972, he piloted an A-6A Intruder (bureau number 152946) on a bombing mission against enemy targets near Kien An Airfield. Lieutenant Commander Graustein’s Intruder went down during the mission, and he was killed in the incident. His remains could not be recovered at the time. In 1985, a set of unknown remains were turned over to a group of U.S. investigators performing an excavation in Vietnam. Forensic analysis identified LCDR Graustein from among the returned remains.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency