| The Incident
Captain Kenneth D. Robinson,
pilot, and 1Lt. Sammie D. Hoff, bomber/navigator, were the crew
of an F4C Phantom fighter/bomber sent on a mission over North
Vietnam on August 30, 1966.
When the aircraft was over
Quang Binh Province, it was shot down, and the pilot gave the
order to eject. Hoff, the backseater, ejected first, and other
aircraft in the area had brief radio contact with him. It is
assumed that Robinson also safely ejected.
In early 1989, the U.S.
announced that remains previously turned over to them by the
Vietnamese had been positively identified as 1Lt. Hoff and Capt.
Robinson. The question is, when did they die ... and why did it
taken so long for them to come home?
|
