THE WALL OF FACES

Dear Major Burke Morgan, Thank you for your service as a Bombardier-Navigator. I am glad you were identified in 2005. Welcome Home. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. It is Advent, and this week means hope. Time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

Information about former MIA Major Burke Henderson Morgan, USAFA class of 1961,
from the Association of Graduates, U.S. Air Force Academy Memorial Wall is at this link on the USAFA AoG website:

http://memwall.usafalibrary.com/#memwallhomepage

According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) website at the below link, former MIA Major Burke Henderson Morgan, USAFA class of 1961, was accounted for on 23 November 2005:

https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000vjG3pEAE

As of the latest DPAA update (29 May 2020), Major Morgan is one of 1,050 Americans accounted for in Southeast Asia from the Vietnam War.

https://www.dpaa.mil/Portals/85/VietnamAccounting/pmsea_acc_ALL_20200529.pdf

Of the USAFA's 151 Vietnam War Fallen Heroes, there are 42 USAFA graduates still MIA. They are a small portion of the 1,587 Americans still MIA in SEA:

https://www.dpaa.mil/Portals/85/VietnamAccounting/pmsea_una_ALL_20200529.pdf

On the date of his loss, 22 August 1967, Captain Steadman was the pilot of an A-26A Invader aircraft from the 606th Air Commando Squadron on an armed reconnaissance mission over enemy transportation routes in Laos. While in MIA status, the U.S. Air Force promoted Capt. Morgan with his contemporaries to Major. The other crewman on the mission, Maj. John Kerr, remains MIA.

Additional information about the loss of an A-26A Invader from the 606th Air Command Squadron (ACS) on 22 Aug 1967 in which former MIA Major Burke Henderson Morgan, USAFA class of 1961, was a crewman is at the below link from the Vietnam War Fixed-wing Air Losses website:

https://vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=1314

Former MIA Major Burke Henderson Morgan, USAFA class of 1961, has his name chiseled into one of the stone "Courts of the Missing" (Vietnam War Section, Air Force Court "A") at the Honolulu Memorial in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (the "Punchbowl") on the island of Oahu in the state of Hawaii. See the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) website at this link:

https://www.abmc.gov/decedent-search/morgan%3Dburke