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. 2020

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                                                                                                   [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......
 

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01/2020

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LTJG BARRY EDWIN KARGER

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On January 3, 1994, Joint Task Force–Full Accounting (JTF-FA) identified the remains of Lieutenant Junior Grade Barry Edwin Karger, missing from the Vietnam War.

Lieutenant Junior Grade Karger entered the U.S.Navy from California and was a member of Attack Squadron 93, Carrier Air Wing 5. On May 14, 1968, he piloted an A-4F Skyhawk (bureau number 154198, call sign "Raven 304") that launched from the USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) on a strike mission over enemy targets in Quang Binh Province, North Vietnam. During the mission, the aircraft was shot down by enemy fire and crashed in the Cau Rang River. LTJG Karger was killed in the crash and his remains could not be recovered at the time due to enemy presence in the area. In 1993, the Vietnamese government repatriated human remains to the U.S. that were eventually identified as those of LTJG Karger. 

Lieutenant Junior Grade Karger is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. 

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