Walter Francis Wrobleski

Vietnam War
Unit218th Aviation Company
RankChief Warrant Officer Third Class U.S. Army
Entered Service FromFreehold New Jersey
Date of DeathMay 21 1967
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
B
Notes
Chief Warrant Officer, Third Class Wrobleski was a member of 218th Aviation Company, 10th Aviation Battalion, 17th Aviation Group. On May 21, 1967, he was a pilot of a Bell Iroquois Utility Helicopter (UH-1D) on an extraction mission in the A Shau Valley, South Vietnam. As the aircraft was making a strafing run, it was hit by heavy caliber machine gun fire and crashed. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.