02 Oct 2001 REMEMBERED BY HIS SHIPMATES VA-93 Squadron Photo, January 1968, San Diego. Arrow points to LTJG Barger. "On May 14, 1968, Lieutenant Barry Karger was assigned a strike mission over Quang Binh province, North Vietnam in A-4F Skyhawk BuNo. 154198, side number NF 304. During this mission something terrible went wrong and Lieutenant Karger did not return to Bon Homme Richard." From the skyhawk.org memorial [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. Karger, a member of the Navy reserves, was lost in the vicinity of Quang Binh province on May 14, 1968, when the A4-F aircraft he was piloting on a strike mission over North Vietnam appeared to go out of control and crash, the Pentagon said. He was 22 at the time. His remains were turned over to U.S. authorities last June following a joint U.S.-Vietnamese search, and were to be returned Thursday to Travis Air Force Base in California from Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii. From a VA-93 squadronmate. donroen@aol.com

 

23 Apr 2006 From top to bottom CDR Bob Wilson, LTJG Sam Schneider, LCDR Mike Trout, and LTJG Barry Karger. I scanned the photo from the 1968 cruise book. From a BON HOMME RICHARD shipmate, Paul Crager host@ussbhr.org

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