Robert Roy Greenwood Jr.

Vietnam War
Unit421st Tactical Fighter Squadron
RankMajor U.S. Air Force
Entered Service FromPortsmouth Virginia
Date of DeathSeptember 2 1972
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
A
Notes
Major Greenwood was a member of the 421st Tactical Fighter Squadron, Takhli Air Base, Thailand. On September 2, 1972, he was the weapons systems officer of a McDonnell Douglas Phantom II Fighter (F-4E) on a combat mission 5 miles east of Ban Na Mai in the Plain of Jars region, Xiangkhoang Province, Laos, when his aircraft crashed, possible from a mid-air collision. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.