Robert T. Basha

War: Cold War

Class: 1959

Major: Mechanical Engineering

Home Town: Mt. Pleasant, SC

Service: Army

Rank: Colonel

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

Date of Death: 27 June 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 near Unteralterheim.