Robert T. Basha

Graduating Class
1958

Major
Mechanical Engineering

Hometown
Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina

Service & Rank
Army, Colonel

Unit
US Army, Field Artillery. HHB, 8th Infantry Division, Germany

Date of Birth
Jan 5, 1936

Date of Death
Jun 27, 1978

Details of Death
He was a passenger on an Army aircraft that was flying from the unit's barracks at Baumholder, Federal Republic of Germany to the Army training grounds at Grafenwoehr, when it lost its tail rotor and crashed in a garden on the edge of a sugarbeet field near Unteralterheim, Germany.

Burial Details
Saint Paul's Lutheran Church Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, SC

Barrow Stone Location
SW

Additional Information

Extracts from Individual Deceased Personnel File

Briefing, preparation and arrangements conducted by the Memorial Affairs Office At Dover Air Force Base were outstanding in every reguard.
Travel from Dover AFB to Charleston was in accordance with travel itinerary and was without incident.
Body was transported by plane to McAlister Funeral Home in Charleston.
Casket was received by McAllister Funeral Home in Charleston without any damage.
Funeral services and interment were military and dignified.

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Grave marker at Saint Paul's Lutheran Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, SC

Extra Documents

Tail Rotor – Vignette written for the Echo by Kelly Durham