BERGER, JAMES ROBERT
RIP - Oct 9, 2015
Name: James Robert Berger
Rank/Branch: O3/United States Air Force
Unit: 480th TFS
Date of Birth: 06 November 1938
Home City of Record: Mansfield OH
Date of Loss: 02 December 1966
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 212000N 1055400E
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4C #0753
Incident No: 0534
Missions: 30
Other Personnel in Incident: Hubert Flesher, returnee
Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK March 1997 from one or more of the
following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with
POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews. 2023
REMARKS: 730218 RELEASED BY DRV
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James Berger retired from the United States Air Force as a Lt. Colonel. He
and Carole reside in Virginia.
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Oct 12, 2015
Lt. Col. James Robert Berger USAF Ret, 76, of Lexington, died Friday, October 9,
2015. Born in
Charleston, W.Va., he was a son of the late, Jesse Green Berger
and Georgie Pritt Berger. He was
the owner of Lexington Building Supply and
other businesses for many years. Lt. Col. Berger was
a former Vietnam P.O.W.
from 1966 to 1972.
Surviving are his wife, Carole Wright Berger; sons, William H. Berger and his
two children,
Elaina Carole and Jesse Theodosis Berger, and Scott D. Berger and
wife, Nora.
A funeral service will be conducted at 11 a.m., Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at
Manly Memorial
Baptist Church with Dr. J. Michael Wilkins officiating. Burial
will follow at Stonewall Jackson
Memorial Cemetery. In lieu of flowers donations
may be made to the Manly Memorial Baptist
Church Mission Fund. There will be no
visitation at the funeral home.
Arrangements by Harrison Funeral Home & Crematory, Lexington.
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