Armond, Robert Laurence
Air Force Captain

Robert Laurence Armond, age 30, from San Mateo County San Mateo, California .

Spouse: Emily M. Armond

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Friday, June 18, 1965
Death details: On June 18, 1965, two B-52F Stratofortresses (tail numbers 57-179 and 57-047) carrying six crew members each collided in mid-air over the South China Sea while en route to Vietnam. Both aircraft were destroyed in the collision. Search and rescue efforts recovered four survivors and the remains of one additional crew member. The remaining seven crew members could not be found. Captain Robert Laurence Armond, who entered the U.S. Air Force from California, served with the 441st Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) and was an electronic warfare officer aboard one of these B-52s. He was lost with his aircraft and remains unaccounted for. Today, Captain Armond is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Associated Press (1965)