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F-105D Thunderchiefs refuel from a KC-135 on the way to North Vietnam, about 1966.
F-105D Thunderchiefs refuel from a KC-135 on the way to North Vietnam, about 1966. Photo: U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Barry Edwin Karger.

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BARRY EDWIN KARGER

Lieutenant (junior grade) · U.S. Navy

August 11, 1945 – May 14, 1968

Service record

Barry Edwin Karger, of Prather, California, served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 14, 1968, in North Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 60E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 60E · Line 13

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Lieutenant (junior grade) (LTJG)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Url Pilot (1315)
Born
August 11, 1945
Home of record
Prather, California (Fresno County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 14, 1968
Age
22
Country
North Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew

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What was happening

52 names on the Wall carry the date May 14, 1968. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.

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Also on Panel 60E, Line 13

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.