The Korean War Veterans Honor Roll
Robert Deane Amsden
Rank
Staff Sergeant, U.S. Air Force
Date of Death
March 23, 1951
Airman First Class Amsden served as a flight engineer aboard a C-124 Globemaster transport assigned to the 2nd Service and Supply Squadron, 47th Air Division based at Walker Air Force Base, Roswell, New Mexico. On March 23, 1951, the aircraft was enroute from Gander, Newfoundland to Mildenhall Air Base, England when it disappeared about six hundred miles west of Shannon, Ireland, killing all 53 Airman on board.