Rank/Branch: USMC, O2
Unit: VMCJ 1 MAG 11
Date of Birth: 18 December 42
Home City of Record: Norfolk, VA
Date of Loss: 18 March 66
Country of Loss: Laos
Loss Coordinates: 191958N 1050959E
Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
Category: 2
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: EF-110B

Personnel In Incident:
...Brent E. Davis

Synopsis Of Incident:

On March 18, 1966, 1st Lt. McPherson and Davis were the crew on board an EF-10B, one in a flight of two aircraft on an electronic counter-measures mission in support of an air strike approximately 10 miles west of Thanh Hoa City, Thanh Hoa Province.

Their flight received 85mm anti-aircraft fire during the mission. There was an explosion in their aircraft while at an altitude of 26,000 feet and over neighboring Nghe An Province. They were believed to have been hit and downed by enemy surface to air missile. A SAR mission over the area produced negative results.

Both airmen were initially declared missing in action. Returning U.S. POWs had no information on their fate. Both airmen were initially declared dead/body not recovered, based on a presumptive finding of death.

In December 1988, Vietnamese officials acknowledge having knowledge of their loss incident.

Everett Alvin McPherson also has a Rembrance Place on the Virtual Wall

This link will take you the Remembrance Site for Everett Alvin McPherson

Source:
Initial biographical & loss information on POW/MIAs provided by
Operation Just Cause has been supplied by Chuck and Mary Schantag of
POWNET.
Additional raw data from U.S. Government agency sources,
correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews
Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK 2000

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