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JOHN RAYMOND HARTKEMEYER
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
September 14, 1946 – December 17, 1968
Service recordJohn Raymond Hartkemeyer, of Hamilton, Ohio, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 17, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 35
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
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Engineman (EN)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- September 14, 1946
- Home of record
- Hamilton, Ohio (Butler County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 17, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date December 17, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 35
- JAMES RUSSELL HAMMERSLAFirst Lieutenant · December 17, 1968
- JOHN KENT HAYWARDCaptain · December 17, 1968
- JOHN PETER KOOBChief Warrant Officer 2 · December 17, 1968
- JOHN DAVID KROUSLISFirst Lieutenant · December 17, 1968
From Hamilton
- STANLEY SERGEANT SHAWLieutenant · February 11, 1964
- NELSON EDDIE WILSONPrivate First Class · September 1, 1965
- EUGENE LEE ELLWOODCorporal · October 3, 1965
- LEON PARNELL LAMPLEYPrivate First Class · October 3, 1965
- THOMAS FREDERICK BRUCKChief Petty Officer · January 10, 1966
- THOMAS EDWARD MILESPrivate First Class · March 29, 1966
- PAUL LEWIN CONRADPrivate First Class · May 24, 1966
- SAMUEL LEWIS HUFFMANPrivate First Class · July 25, 1966
- KENNETH RAY BERTSCHSpecialist Four · September 13, 1966
- WALTER MARCUMPrivate First Class · September 29, 1966
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.