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U.S. Air Force Maj. John C.G. Kerr, 35, of Florida and U.S. Army Cpl. Richard Seloover, 17, of Illinois.

U.S. Air Force Maj. John C.G. Kerr, 35, of Florida and U.S. Army Cpl. Richard Seloover, 17, of Illinois. (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency)

U.S. Air Force Maj. John C.G. Kerr, 35, of Florida, reported missing during the Vietnam War, was accounted for April 24, and U.S. Army Cpl. Richard Seloover, 17, of Illinois, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for Jan. 10.

On Aug. 22, 1967, Kerr was piloting an A-26A Invader attack aircraft on a solo nighttime armed reconnaissance mission over the Plain of Jars, Laos. After he failed to check in via radio and didn’t return from the mission, U.S. forces began an extensive electronic and visual search of the area, in which extensive enemy defenses were present, but could not find Kerr or the aircraft. Likely related to this incident, a New China News Agency broadcast reported the Aug. 22 shootdown of an American aircraft near Ban Ban and the deaths of its crew members.

Kerr was declared killed in action on June 4, 1971.

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Joe Fleming is a digital editor and occasional reporter for Stars and Stripes. From cops and courts in Tennessee and Arkansas, to the Olympics in Beijing, Vancouver, London, Sochi, Rio and Pyeongchang, he has worked as a journalist for three decades. Both of his sisters served in the U.S. military, Army and Air Force, and they read Stars and Stripes.

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