Bio, Cherry, Allen S.

Name: Allen Sheldon Cherry
Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/O3
Unit:
Date of Birth: 09/14/1936
Home City of Record: UNIVERSITY CITY MO
Date of Loss: 09 August 1967
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 192158 North 1040757 East
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A1E #132678
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 0788

Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews and CACCF = Combined Action
Combat Casualty File. Updated 2020

CAPT ALLEN SHELDON CHERRY

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Conflict
Service
Status
Date of Accounting

VIETNAM WAR
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
Accounted For
07/15/1999

On July 15, 1999, Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Captain Allen Sheldon Cherry, missing from the Vietnam War.

Captain Cherry entered the U.S. Air Force from Missouri and served with 602nd Air Commando Squadron. On August 9, 1967, he piloted an A-1E Skyraider (serial number 52-132678) on an armed reconnaissance mission over North Vietnam. While performing a strafing run, his Skyraider crashed into the ground, killing Capt Cherry. His body could not be recovered from the crash site at the time due to the presence of enemy forces nearby. In 1997, a joint search team located and excavated the crash site, recovering remains that analysts later identified as those of Capt Cherry.

Captain Cherry is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

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Capt ALLEN SHELDON CHERRY

Unit
Historical Country of Loss
North Vietnam
Current Country of Loss
VIETNAM
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