AIR COMMANDO 2 Egger, John Culbertson,Jr

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Egger ​

• FORENAME

John Culbertson,Jr ​

• UNIT

20 Tactical Air Support Squadron (504 T.A.S. Group) ​

• RANK

Major ​

• NUMBER

53406 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

3rd November 1967 ​

• AGE

37 ​

• GRAVESITE

Memorial Park Cemetery,Tulsa,Tulsa County,Oklahoma ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

from Tulsa,Oklahoma​

born 9.11.1929 Wichita,Sedgwick County,Kansas​

son of John Culbertson and Boma Adelia (nee Richards) Egger,Tulsa,Oklahoma​

husband of Mrs Egger,Tulsa,Oklahoma (1 son Jay Courtney,1 daughter Sherry Lynn)​

entered service 1953​

awards D.F.C.,Air Medal with 2 oak leaf clusters (posthumous)​

pilot (Covey Forward Air Controller)​

O-2A 67-21328​

hit by groundfire near Vinh Linh,North Vietnam and crashed in Gulf of Tonkin​

remains returned 7.2.1994​

identified 15.8.1994​

Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,D.C. Panel 29E Line 14 ​