ATTENTION ALL WEBSURFERS!!!Please click here to get information on H. Res. 103 (POW/MIA) Bill before the house right now. Please contact your congressman or congresswoman today through this link, and tell them that you support this bill, and you want them to do the same. Election time is coming up. Time to make them accountable. Servicemen like LTJG Ronald L. Roerich and his family are counting on you to make that phone call, fax, or email to the representatives of your state. This is the aircraft carrier LTJG Ronald "L" Roehrich flew off of on that fateful night in November. It is a Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier. Please click here to go to a neat website about the USS Kitty Hawk. :) Name: Ronald "L" Roehrich Rank/Branch: O2/US Navy Unit: Fighter Squadron 114, USS KITTY HAWK (CVA 63) Date of Birth: 16 November 1941 (Langdon ND) Home City of Record: Springdale AR Date of Loss: 18 January 1968 Country of Loss: North Vietnam/Over Water Loss Coordinates: 192859N 1065859E (YG081553) Status (in 1973): Killed/Body Not Recovered Category: 5 Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4B Refno: 0995 Other Personnel In Incident: Warren W. Boles (missing) Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 01 April 1990 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 1998. REMARKS:None at this time. SYNOPSIS: LTJG Warren W. Boles was a pilot assigned to Fighter Squadron 114 onboard the aircraft carrier USS KITTY HAWK. On January 18, 1968, he and his radar intercept officer (RIO), LTJG Ron Roehrich launched in their F4B Phantom fighter aircraft as the second plane of a two-plane section. Their assigned mission was as Barrier Combat Air Patrol Mission to protect friendly air and surface units in the Gulf of Tonkin. The two aircraft were launched independently and proceeded to their assigned station separately. Enroute to the station, Boles established radio contact with his airborne controller and was immediately vectored to investigate an unidentified surface contact in a threatening position in the Gulf. Boles descended through a low overcast and positively identified the contact as a non-hostile, cargo-type ship. Seconds later, radio and radar contact were lost with Bole's aircraft. Search and rescue helicopters were immediately sent to the scene and confirmed, by a fuel slick and debris, that the aircraft had crashed at sea. Although an exhaustive search was conducted, no survivors were found. The weather at the scene was about 700 feet overcast with low visibility and it was very dark. Final analysis of the accident concluded that Boles apparently became disoriented while visually tring to identify the surface contact and flying on instruments and inadvertently collided with the water. The Commanding Officer believed that Boles had no warning of his impending crash and that his death was instantaneous. Boles and Roehrich appear to have perished in the unexplained crash of their aircraft that January day in 1968. They are among nearly 2500 Americans who remain missing or unaccounted for from the Vietnam War. Thousands of refugee reports have been received since the war ended which have convinced many authorities that hundreds of these Americans are still alive. If he is one of the hundreds of Americans experts now believe are still deceased in captivity in Southeast Asia, what are we doing to bring his remains home? What did he think of us, and why did the American government leave him to die in captivity?? Is it because of greed, or maybe the "river of denial" ran like a stream, and covered over the truth as to his release from his hell on earth.Click here for the PMSEA (Personnel Missing Southeast Asia) for a detailed report on those accounted for, still missing, and unaccounted for from Arkansas.If you would like to write to families of these missing servicemen, the only way I know is to go to this website, and follow the directions on the website. When you write the letters to the families, please make sure that you address it in reference to the missing serviceperson's family. This is how I got in touch with Mrs. Lucy Sennett.She is the wife of one of my missing servicemen Robert R. Sennett. I can only imagine what these families like Mrs. Lucy Sennett have been through of not knowing.This must be hell on earth for them. Please, let's make their lives easier by taking the torch for them and finding out what happened to their family member, and not accepting anything but the truth, and not subjecting ourselves to the "Presumptive Finding of Death" finding.As a person of this cause, I can honestly say, that those families expect nothing less. Let's NOT ACCEPT anything less. While Boles and Roehrich may not be among them, one can imagine their cheerfully accepting one more mission to help guard their flight to safety. This site is a member of WebRing. To browse visit Here. This site is owned by Mike Matteri [Next] [Previous] [Random] [List] [Info] [Join] This RingSurf Operation Black Flag Net Ringowned by Mike Matteri. [ Previous 5 Sites | Skip Previous | Previous | Next ] [ Skip Next | Next 5 Sites | Random Site | List Sites | Join ]
Name: Ronald "L" Roehrich Rank/Branch: O2/US Navy Unit: Fighter Squadron 114, USS KITTY HAWK (CVA 63) Date of Birth: 16 November 1941 (Langdon ND) Home City of Record: Springdale AR Date of Loss: 18 January 1968 Country of Loss: North Vietnam/Over Water Loss Coordinates: 192859N 1065859E (YG081553) Status (in 1973): Killed/Body Not Recovered Category: 5 Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4B Refno: 0995 Other Personnel In Incident: Warren W. Boles (missing) Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 01 April 1990 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 1998.
REMARKS:None at this time.
SYNOPSIS: LTJG Warren W. Boles was a pilot assigned to Fighter Squadron 114 onboard the aircraft carrier USS KITTY HAWK. On January 18, 1968, he and his radar intercept officer (RIO), LTJG Ron Roehrich launched in their F4B Phantom fighter aircraft as the second plane of a two-plane section. Their assigned mission was as Barrier Combat Air Patrol Mission to protect friendly air and surface units in the Gulf of Tonkin.
The two aircraft were launched independently and proceeded to their assigned station separately.
Enroute to the station, Boles established radio contact with his airborne controller and was immediately vectored to investigate an unidentified surface contact in a threatening position in the Gulf.
Boles descended through a low overcast and positively identified the contact as a non-hostile, cargo-type ship. Seconds later, radio and radar contact were lost with Bole's aircraft.
Search and rescue helicopters were immediately sent to the scene and confirmed, by a fuel slick and debris, that the aircraft had crashed at sea.
Although an exhaustive search was conducted, no survivors were found.
The weather at the scene was about 700 feet overcast with low visibility and it was very dark.
Final analysis of the accident concluded that Boles apparently became disoriented while visually tring to identify the surface contact and flying on instruments and inadvertently collided with the water.
The Commanding Officer believed that Boles had no warning of his impending crash and that his death was instantaneous.
Boles and Roehrich appear to have perished in the unexplained crash of their aircraft that January day in 1968.
They are among nearly 2500 Americans who remain missing or unaccounted for from the Vietnam War. Thousands of refugee reports have been received since the war ended which have convinced many authorities that hundreds of these Americans are still alive. If he is one of the hundreds of Americans experts now believe are still deceased in captivity in Southeast Asia, what are we doing to bring his remains home? What did he think of us, and why did the American government leave him to die in captivity?? Is it because of greed, or maybe the "river of denial" ran like a stream, and covered over the truth as to his release from his hell on earth.
Click here for the PMSEA (Personnel Missing Southeast Asia) for a detailed report on those accounted for, still missing, and unaccounted for from Arkansas.
If you would like to write to families of these missing servicemen, the only way I know is to go to this website, and follow the directions on the website.
When you write the letters to the families, please make sure that you address it in reference to the missing serviceperson's family.
This is how I got in touch with Mrs. Lucy Sennett.She is the wife of one of my missing servicemen Robert R. Sennett. I can only imagine what these families like Mrs. Lucy Sennett have been through of not knowing.This must be hell on earth for them.
Please, let's make their lives easier by taking the torch for them and finding out what happened to their family member, and not accepting anything but the truth, and not subjecting ourselves to the "Presumptive Finding of Death" finding.As a person of this cause, I can honestly say, that those families expect nothing less. Let's NOT ACCEPT anything less.
While Boles and Roehrich may not be among them, one can imagine their cheerfully accepting one more mission to help guard their flight to safety.
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