The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Air Force Maj. John C.G. Kerr, missing since a 1967 mission in Laos, was accounted for on April 24, 2024, decades after being declared Killed in Action.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has confirmed that U.S. Air Force Major John C.G. Kerr, who went missing during the Vietnam War at the age of 35, has been accounted for as of April 24, 2024.Major Kerr was reported missing after his aircraft, an A-26A Invader attack aircraft, failed to return from a combat mission on August 22, 1967. He was on a solo nighttime armed reconnaissance mission over the Plain of Jars in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, according to the DPAA.
The search efforts occurred alongside a report by the New China News Agency, which claimed that an American aircraft had been shot down near Ban Ban on the same day, indicating the likely fate of Major Kerr. After years of exhaustive searches and lingering uncertainty, Major Kerr was officially declared Killed in Action on June 4, 1971.The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency is a U.S. government agency within the Department of Defense.
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