John Alvin Berry

Vietnam War
Unit1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division
RankWarrant Officer First Class U.S. Army
Entered Service FromNaturita Colorado
Date of DeathDecember 5 1968
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
B
Notes
Warrant Officer, First Class Berry was a member of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division. On December 5, 1968, he was the pilot of a Hughes Cayuse Observation Helicopter on a reconnaissance mission of suspected enemy bunker complex in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam near Cambodia. As the aircraft approached the area it received ground fire crashed and burned. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.