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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 5135" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Merriman </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>John Gaither </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>CIA pilot </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Civilian </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>20th August 1964 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Chattanooga National Cemetery,Hamilton County,Tennessee Section BB Grave 172 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>husband of Valeria S. ("Val") Merriman,Tucson,Arizona (3 sons)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>gained pilot's license age 16</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>82nd Airborne Division age 17</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commercial pilot</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>US Weather Bureau (Civil Air Patrol's Yakutat Squadron,Alaska) age 24</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>joined CIA (Intermountain Aviation) 1963</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award Intelligence Star 1965 (posthumous)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>T-28 aircraft shot down and crashed near Kabongo,Congo 26.7.1964</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died of injuries on USAF cargo aircraft over Ascension Island </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/j-merriman.1751/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/1/1751-0e811b8c040536e91f1bbe95103ec439.jpg?1591383323" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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