KARGER, BARRY EDWIN

Name: Barry Edwin Karger
Rank/Branch: 02/US Navy
Unit:
Date of Birth: 11 August 1945
Home City of Record: Prather, CA
Date of Loss: 14 May 1968
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 175358N 1062758E
Status (in 1973): Killed in Action/Body not Recovered
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A4F

Other Personnel in Incident: None Missing

Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK 06 September 1996 from one or more of the
following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with
POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews.

REMARKS:

[ap0106d.94 01/10/94]
APn 06-Jan-94
MIA Remains

The Associated Press.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The remains of an American shot down over North
Vietnam in 1968 have been identified as Navy Lt. j.g. Barry E. Karger of
Prather, Calif., the Pentagon said Thursday.

Karger, a member of the Navy reserves, was lost in the vicinity of
Quang Binh province on May 14, 1968, when the A4-F aircraft he was
piloting on a strike mission over North Vietnam appeared to go out of
control and crash, the Pentagon said. He was 22 at the time.

His remains were turned over to U.S. authorities last June following
a joint U.S.-Vietnamese search, and were to be returned Thursday to
Travis Air Force Base in California from Hickam Air Force Base in
Hawaii.

The Pentagon currently lists 2,239 Americans as missing in action
from the war in Southeast Asia.


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