His name on the Vietnam Memorial Wall is on Panel 04E, Line 32.
The North Vietnamese also captured Capt Trier but they shot and killed him as he tried to defend himself. Their plane crashed at location 21-25N and 107-05E. On their third mission, 28-year old Capt John Joseph Pitchford and 32-year old EWO Capt Robert Douglas Trier, in F-100F 58-1231, call sign "Apple 05", were hit by heavy 100-mm AAA. The specific target for the Wild Weasel flight was SA-2 site VN 33 at location 21-20- 15N and 106-20-15E, 30 miles from Hanoi. This target was part of the Rolling Thunder 45 strike on the Vu Chua Bridge (JCS 18.74). The first Wild Weasel I F-100F was lost to combat while leading a strike by twelve F-105s on Kep Airfield (JCS 9.1). He was posthumously promoted to Major during the period he was MIA. He was then declared dead, but his remains were not recovered until October 14th of 1982, and returned to his family on October 26, 1982. Capt Pitchford is in the POW section and Capt Trier was lost evading capture in a gun battle with the North Vietnamese.Ĭaptain Trier was listed as MIA (Missing in Action) until 1973 when the North Vietnamese reported that he had been killed resisting capture. Capt Pitchford and Capt Trier were the first Weasels shot down in Vietnam. Captain Pitchford was captured and became a POW. His fighter plane was shot down deep into North Vietnamese territory. On December 20, 1965, then Captain Robert Douglas Trier was the Electronic Weapons Officer on an F-100F (Aircraft # 58-1231) over North Vietnam piloted by Captain John J.
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