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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Michael George Moharemoff.

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MICHAEL GEORGE MOHAREMOFF

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

November 28, 1947 – February 20, 1968

Service record

Michael George Moharemoff, of Detroit, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 20, 1968, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 40E · Line 44

Position of Panel 40E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Avionic Communications Equipment Repairer (35L)
Born
November 28, 1947
Home of record
Detroit, Michigan (Wayne County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 20, 1968
Age
20
Province
Phu Yen
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

76 names on the Wall carry the date February 20, 1968; eight of them were lost in Phu Yen Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 40E, Line 44

From Detroit

All 525 names from Detroit →

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.