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CARL KOLLMEYER
Lieutenant · U.S. Navy
February 5, 1938 – May 5, 1968
Service recordCarl Kollmeyer, of Hopkins, Minnesota, served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 5, 1968, in Phong Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 55E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55E · Line 19
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (LT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url No Warfare Specialty (1100)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 FLT
- Born
- February 5, 1938
- Home of record
- Hopkins, Minnesota (Hennepin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 5, 1968
- Age
- 30
- Province
- Phong Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
189 names on the Wall carry the date May 5, 1968; two of them were lost in Phong Dinh Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “7 FLT”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 55E, Line 19
- RONALD ARWED HILLMANCorporal · May 5, 1968
- SANTFORD BERNARD KEMPKEPrivate First Class · May 5, 1968
- ALVIN COY KNIGHTCorporal · May 5, 1968
- JOHN ROY KNORRSpecialist Four · May 5, 1968
From Hopkins
- DEAN ROGER ZIMMERMANPrivate First Class · April 16, 1967
- HERMAN JOHN BAERCorporal · September 22, 1967
- ERIC CRAIG EGGESecond Lieutenant · October 14, 1967
- THOMAS KOENIG SCHAEFERPrivate First Class · March 3, 1969
- DAVID THOMAS NELSONLance Corporal · April 13, 1969
- FRED CHRIS KRAEMERSergeant · August 26, 1970
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.