John C.G. Kerr, originally from Florida, was 35 when he was reported missing in 1967.
An American pilot who disappeared during a Vietnam War-era spy mission has been accounted for almost 60 years later, officials said Monday. Kerr had been piloting an attack aircraft on a 'solo nighttime armed reconnaissance mission' over Laos on August 22, 1967, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said in a news release. He did not return from the mission, and failed to check in via radio, spurring U.S.
The DPAA did not provide any information about how Kerr had been accounted for, but the agency typically uses DNA testing and other scientific advancements to study the recoverable remains of fallen soldiers. Since 2021, the DPAA has been carrying out the Vietnam War Identification Project, which is a concerted effort to identify missing soldiers associated with the war.
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