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His B-57 disappeared over Laos during bad weather while on a night strike mission. His remains have never been recovered. He has a memorial stone in Arlington in Memorial Section I and is also memorialized on Court A of the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial, HI. He was promoted to Lt. Col. while on MIA status. He was declared dead Jan 2, 1979.
This Veteran has an (IMO) In Memory Of Headstone in Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial, Hawaii with another memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA.
Then Captain Everett Kerr served out ofDa Nang AB, RVN.
On 13 June 1966, Captain Charles W. Burkart Jr. was the pilot and Captain Everett O. Kerr the navigator of a B-57 Canberra assigned a night strike mission over Laos on June 13, 1966. Capt. Burkart's aircraft was flying in a flight of three planes.
Prior to reaching the target area, the flight became separated due to bad weather. The last known radio contact from Burkart and Kerr was approximately 50 minutes after takeoff at Da Nang. Their approximate location was about 8 miles southeast of the city of Ban Som Peng in the Ban Karai Pass region of Khammouane Province, Laos.
Despite search efforts, no aircraft wreckage was located, and no emergency beeper signals were detected. Burkart and Kerr were classified Missing in Action.
