Article by Holly Hudson,| Waterloo Courier | Sep 22, 2013
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| A POW-MIA bracelet owned by Dorothy Ackerson photographed at the Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum on Friday in Waterloo. Ackerson gave the bracelet to the museum so that it can be put on display for others to see. - TIFFANY RUSHING / Courier Staff Photographer |
WATERLOO | Dorothy Ackerson never met Robert Rex, yet the two have been connected for decades.
According to the Grout Museum District, Rex was born in Odebolt in 1941 and was the first person from his hometown to earn an appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy. He graduated from the academy in 1963 as a second lieutenant and became a pilot a year later. In 1968, he volunteered to serve in Southeast Asia. In 1969, his plane crashed near the Quang Tri Province in South Korea. His body was never recovered.
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Also, visit a page about Robert Rex on the Odebolt History Pages
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