Robert Donald Beutel

Vietnam War
Unit497th Tactical Fighter Squadron
RankCaptain U.S. Air Force
Entered Service FromTremont Illinois
Date of DeathNovember 26 1971
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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Notes
Captain Beutel was a member of the 497th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Ubon Airfield, Thailand. On November 26, 1971, he was the bombardier/navigator of a McDonnell Douglas Phantom II Fighter (F-4D) on a mission out of Thailand. As the aircraft crossed the Laotian border into Savannakhet Province, radio contact was lost. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.