Robert Ray Lynn, age 32, from Jacksonville, Illinois, Morgan county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: December 21, 1972
Death details:On April 18, 1989, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILHI, now DPAA) identified the remains of Major Robert Ray Lynn, missing from the Vietnam War.
Major Lynn entered the U.S. Air Force from Illinois and was a member of the 325th Bombardment Squadron. On December 21, 1972, he was the electronics warfare officer aboard a B-52G Stratofortress (tail number 58-0198, call sign “Olive 01”) that took off from Guam on a bombing mission over North Vietnam. During the flight, “Olive 01” was hit by an enemy surface-to-air missile that caused it to crash and explode near Hanoi in Ha Tay Province; Maj Lynn did not survive the incident. Attempts to reach the crash site were prevented by enemy control of the area, and his remains were not recovered at the time. In 1988, the Vietnamese government repatriated human remains that U.S. analysts identified as those of Maj Lynn.
Source: National Archives, Associated Press, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency