BERKSON, JOSEPH MIKE
REMAINS RECOVERED 720720 ID'd 7330522
Name: Joseph Mike Berkson
Rank/Branch: United States Army/O3
Unit:
Date of Birth: 22 April 1947
Home City of Record: Chicago IL
Date of Loss: 02 May 1972
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 163925 North 1071320 East
Status (in 1973):
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: UH1H
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident: William Jesse, remains returned;, Charles
Morgan, remains returned; John Petrilla, remains returned; Dale
Porterfield, remains returned
Refno: 1839
Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews and CACCF = Combined Action
Combat Casualty File. 2020
REMARKS: 720720 REMAINS RECOVERED ID'd 7330522
CACCF CRASH/NONAIRCREW 5 miles South of QUANG TRI
No further information available at this time.
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01/2020
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On May 22, 1973, the Central Identification Laboratory-Thailand
(CILT, now DPAA) identified the remains of Captain Joseph Mike
Berkson, missing from the Vietnam War.
Captain Berkson joined the U.S. Army from Illinois and was an
adviser with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) Rangers.
On April 22, 1973, he was a passenger aboard a UH-1H Iroquois
(tail number 70-15863) assisting in search and recovery
operations in Quang-Tri Province, Vietnam. The Iroquois was
downed by an enemy surface-to-air missile, and CPT Berkson was
killed in the crash. Search and rescue efforts for the Iroquois
were prevented by the heavy enemy presence near the crash site.
In 1972, a search team reached the crash site and recovered the
crew's remains, and CPT Berkson was identified from among them
the following year.
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