EBY, ROBERT GINO
Name: Robert Gino Eby
Rank/Branch: Civilian
Unit:
Date of Birth: 03 November 1944
Home City of Record:
Date of Loss: 21 August 1967
Country of Loss: South Vietnam/Over Water
Loss Coordinates: 124956N 1092527E
Status (in 1973): Presumed Dead
Category: 3
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: C47
Other Personnel In Incident: Harry Guenther, German Communications Engineer
in Saigon.
Refno: 0795
Source: Compiled from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S.
Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families,
published sources, interviews. Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK in 1998.
REMARKS:
SYNOPSIS: Robert G. Eby, an American citizen, was, according to Defense
Department onboard a C47 aircraft which crashed off the coast of South
Vietnam. CIA records, however, list the aircraft as being a DC3 crashing off
the coast of MR-3 region of South Vietnam. No sign of survivors or remains
were sighted. Robert G. Eby was presumed dead.
On April 11, 1969, a rallier identified a number of photographs as being of
some of the men he saw while working at a POW camp near the city of Hue in
South Vietnam. Robert Eby's photograph was one of the ones he was
absolutely sure of. He had seen him in the camp in Thua Thien Province.
Along with the identifications, the rallier provided detailed maps and
drawings of the camp and region to prove that he was telling the truth. He
even listed all the guards and workers, their names and certain information
about them. He was as complete as he could be.
The documents outlining this rallier's report were obtained through the
Freedom of Information Act by a private citizen in 1985. He showed the
documents to men who had been held prisoner and released. The information
was largely verified by those sources.
The U.S. Government said that the rallier was a liar.
Whether Robert G. Eby survived the crash of his plane may never be known.
Not because the Vietnamese and Lao are cruelly holding our prisoners for
ransom, but because no one in this U.S. Government is looking for him.
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