AHLMEYER, HEINZ JR.

Name: Heinz Ahlmeyer, Jr.
Rank/Branch: O1/US Navy
Unit: H & S Co., 3rd Recon BN, 3rd Marine Division, Khe Sanh, South Vietnam
Date of Birth: 06 February 1944
Home City of Record: Pearl River NY
Date of Loss: 10 May 1967
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 163706N 1064404E (XD845485)
Status (in 1973): Killed in Action, Body Not Recovered
Category: 2
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground

Other Personnel in Incident: Malcolm T. Miller; James N. Tycz; Samuel A. Sharp
(all missing)

Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 01 April 1990 from one or more of the
following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with
POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews.

REMARKS: KIA WHN PTRL ATKD, WNDD RCV-J

SYNOPSIS: Third Class Petty Officer Malcolm T. Miller was a hospital corpsman
assigned to H & S Company at Khe Sanh, South Vietnam. He was working with A
Company, 3rd Marine Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division at Khe Sanh on
May 9, 1967.

On that day, Miller joined a reconnaissance patrol from A Company that had the
mission of gathering intelligence information on suspected enemy infiltration
routes near their base. The patrol was helicopter lifted into an area just south
of the DMZ, where they found signs of recent enemy activity, and moved to high
ground to establish a night defensive position.

Shortly after 12 p.m. the patrol came under heavy small arms fire, and several
of the team were wounded. Twelve hours later, after numerous unsuccessful
attempts, a helicopter was finally able to land and retrieve the wounded. It was
not possible to retrieve the bodies of those who had died, including Miller,
LCpl. Samuel A. Sharp, Jr., Sgt. James N. Tycz, and 2Lt. Heinz Ahlmeyer, Jr. All
were said to have died during the action from wounds received from enemy small
arms fire and and grenades.

The four men left behind near the DMZ were never found. The government of
Vietnam has been consistently uncooperative in releasing remains they hold or in
allowing access to known loss sites.

Even more tragically, evidence mounts that many Americans are still alive in
Southeast Asia, still prisoners from a war many have long forgotten. It is a
matter of pride in the armed forces, and especially in the Marines Corps, that
one's comrades are never left behind. Many men have been killed trying to bring
in a wounded or killed buddy. One can imagine the men missing from A Company, as
well as Malcolm Miller, had they survived, being willing to go on one more
patrol for those heroes we left behind.


