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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Micheal Ray Harlamert.

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MICHEAL RAY HARLAMERT

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

January 6, 1948 – August 20, 1968

Service record

Micheal Ray Harlamert, of Dixon, Missouri, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on August 20, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 47W · Line 9

Position of Panel 47W 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
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Helicopter Pilot, Utility And Light Cargo Single Rotor (062B)
Unit (as recorded)
117 AVN CO 222 AVN BN 12 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE
Born
January 6, 1948
Home of record
Dixon, Missouri (Pulaski County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 20, 1968
Age
20
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

44 names on the Wall carry the date August 20, 1968; two of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 47W, Line 9

From Dixon

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.