John Hartley Robertson

Vietnam War
Unit5th Special Forces Group
RankMaster Sergeant U.S. Army
Entered Service FromBirmingham Alabama
Date of DeathMay 20 1968
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
B
Notes
Master Sergeant Robertson was a member of Command and Control North, 5th Special Forces Group. On May 20, 1968, he was a passenger in a Sikorsky Choctaw Cargo Helicopter (CH34) on a mission 4 miles inside Laos south of the A Shau Valley. As it landed it was hit by enemy fire, crashed and burned. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.