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JOHN WERNER CARLSON
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JOHN W CARLSON
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POSTED ON 12.15.2021
POSTED BY: John Fabris
honoring you...
Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. It remains my fervent hope you will be returned home after the passage of so many years.
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POSTED ON 4.15.2021
POSTED BY: KR
MIA Capt. John W. Carlson, Citadel 1960, USAF - POW/MIA RECOGNITION DAY 2020
The Department of Defense conducted ceremonies at the Pentagon and at Hickam AFB on Friday, 18 September 2020 in recognition of POW/MIA Recognition Day. Deputy Defense Secretary David L. Nordquist remembered the 1,586 MIAs from the Vietnam War as well as all those still unaccounted for from WWII, the Korean War, the Cold War and other conflicts. Director (Maj. Gen, USAFR, ret) Kelly McKeague of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) also recorded a separate video message to Gold Star MIA families. Additionally, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF) produced a “virtual” event on 18 Sep. Since the 2019 Ceremony, DPAA has positively identified 1 Vietnam War MIA. Captain John Werner Carlson *, Citadel Class of 1960, USAF, is one of those 1,586 MIAs unaccounted for in Southeast Asia from the Vietnam War.
This is the link to the DoD/DVIDS video for the Pentagon ceremony:
https://www.dvidshub.net/video/766486/defense-officials-recognize-prisoners-war-missing-service-members-ceremony
This is the link to the DoD/DVIDS video for the Hickam AFB ceremony:
https://www.dvidshub.net/video/766491/admiral-commemorates-prisoners-war-and-missing-service-members-ceremony
This is the link to the DPAA Director McKeague’s video statement:
https://vimeo.com/454474340
This is the link to the VVMF virtual remembrance: https://www.vvmf.org/POWMIA-2020/
* Remembered on what would've been his 82nd birthday - 15 April 2021.
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POSTED ON 4.15.2021
POSTED BY: KR
MIA Capt. John W. Carlson, Citadel 1960, USAF - - SEA FIXED-WING AIR LOSS
Information about the shoot down of an F-5C Freedom Fighter jet aircraft piloted by MIA Captain John Werner Carlson, Citadel Class of 1960, USAF, in Southeast Asia (SEA) (over South Vietnam) on 7 December 1966 is available at this link/URL on the Vietnam Air Losses website:
https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=920
https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=920
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POSTED ON 4.15.2021
POSTED BY: KR
UPDATED LINK, HONOLULU MEMORIAL (ABMC WEBSITE (Capt. Carlson))
Since the entry on this VVMF website for MIA Captain John Werner Carlson, Citadel Class of 1960, USAF, on 4 January 2018, the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) updated the link/URL on its website for him at the Honolulu Memorial (Court "A") in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (the "Punchbowl") on the island of Oahu in the state of Hawaii.
The updated link/URL is:
https://www.abmc.gov/decedent-search/carlson%3Djohn-7
The updated link/URL is:
https://www.abmc.gov/decedent-search/carlson%3Djohn-7
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