DAUGHTREY, ROBERT NORLAN

Name: Robert Norlan Daughtrey
Rank/Branch: United States Air Force/O3
Unit: 12th TFS
Date of Birth: 05 October 1933
Home City of Record: Del Rio TX
Date of Loss: 02 August 1965
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 194800 North 1054900 East
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F105
Missions: 15 missions
Other Personnel in Incident: none
Refno:

Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews.

REMARKS: 730212 RELEASED BY DRV INJURED

SOURCE: WE CAME HOME copyright 1977
Captain and Mrs. Frederic A Wyatt (USNR Ret), Barbara Powers Wyatt, Editor
P.O.W. Publications, 10250 Moorpark St., Toluca Lake, CA 91602
Text is reproduced as found in the original publication (including date and
spelling errors).

ROBERT N. DAUGHTREY
Major - United States Air Force, pilot
Shot down: August 2, 1965
Released: February 12, 1973

Robert Daughtrey returned home from North Vietnam to a cheering crowd and a
thrilled wife, Sandra, and three children Jim 13 Sharon, 12 and Wade 10.
About 200 school children and the 27th Cadet Squadron from the Air Force
Academy watched as he disembarked from the plane piloted by General Albert
P. Clark Superintendent of the Academy. On his return he said "I am grateful
to those who worked so diligently so the POWs were not forgotten."

As he stood with a brace on his right arm he said "I like the clothing styles,
but I haven't made up my mind about the long hair." Both his arms were
broken when he ejected from his crippled F-105 on August 2 1965. In less
than two months after his capture, the North Vietnamese were using his
picture for propaganda purposes around the world.

Major Daughtrey was a native of Del Rio Texas. He attended Texas A & M,
but left after his sophomore year to earn a commission in the Air Force.
Since there is question whether he will be able to fly again. He hopes
to return to school to get his degree in mathematics.

November 1996
Robert Daughrey retired from the United States Air Force as a Lt. Colonel.
He has remarried and he and his wife Vickie reside in New Mexico.

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