On this Memorial Day 2025, honoring LT Egger, the father of my step-sister. My father married his widow in 1980. His daughter was brought into my family and I always tried to help her understand her later father's legacy even as my own father took on the responsibility of adopting and raising his daughter. She has taken a keen interest in her late father after our dad past away a few years ago.
She unearthed this picture of Jim as a SNA in VT-23 in 1970. Jim later graduated and became a SERGRAD with VT-7.
November 17, 1972: Lt. Harry James Egger, Jr., and Lt. G.P. Rice (USMC) were killed late Friday afternoon when their TA-4J jet trainer (BuNo 158460) crashed three miles N of the air station shortly after takeoff from NAS Meridian. Clarion Ledger, Sunday, 19 November 1972. Funeral for Lt. Harry James Egger, Jr., 26, killed in a plane crash last Friday in MS will be held a 9 a.m. Friday. Lt. Egger died when his TA-4J Skyhawk crashed on takeoff at McCain Naval Air Base in Meridian. San Rafael Independent Journal, Wednesday, November 22, 1972.
She unearthed this picture of Jim as a SNA in VT-23 in 1970. Jim later graduated and became a SERGRAD with VT-7.
November 17, 1972: Lt. Harry James Egger, Jr., and Lt. G.P. Rice (USMC) were killed late Friday afternoon when their TA-4J jet trainer (BuNo 158460) crashed three miles N of the air station shortly after takeoff from NAS Meridian. Clarion Ledger, Sunday, 19 November 1972. Funeral for Lt. Harry James Egger, Jr., 26, killed in a plane crash last Friday in MS will be held a 9 a.m. Friday. Lt. Egger died when his TA-4J Skyhawk crashed on takeoff at McCain Naval Air Base in Meridian. San Rafael Independent Journal, Wednesday, November 22, 1972.