Ganoe, Berman Jr.
Army Staff sergeant

Berman Jr. Ganoe, age 25, from Belleview, Florida, Marion county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Tuesday, March 24, 1970
Death details: On February 15, 2001, the Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Staff Sergeant Berman Junior Ganoe, missing from the Vietnam War.
Staff Sergeant Ganoe joined the U.S. Army from Florida and was a member of the 170th Aviation Company. On March 24, 1970, he was a gunner aboard a UH-1H Iroquois on a mission to extract a long-range reconnaissance patrol in Ratanokiri Province, Cambodia. The aircraft picked up the recon team and was beginning its ascent when it suffered an explosion that caused it to crash. Staff Sergeant Ganoe was killed in the incident. Heavy enemy presence in the area prevented ground investigations of the UH-1H’s crash site at the time. In April 1995, a U.S. search team recovered remains associated with the loss of SSG Ganoe’s helicopter. In 2001, advances in forensic techniques allowed for some of the remains to be identified as those of SSG Ganoe.
Cemetery: Memorialized in Nashville National

Source: National Archives, grave marker, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency