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## News Release

# Vietnam War Missing in Action Servicemen Identified (Ahlmeyer, Tycz, Sharp, Miller) 

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO)announced today that the remains of four U.S. servicemen, missing in action from theVietnam War, have been identified and are being returned to their families for burialwith full military honors.

They are Marine 2nd Lt. Heinz Ahlmeyer Jr. of Pearl River, N.Y.; Marine Sgt.James N. Tycz of Milwaukee, Wis.; Marine Lance Cpl. Samuel A. Sharp Jr. of SanJose, Calif.; and Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Malcolm T. Miller of Tampa, Fla.Ahlmeyer, Tycz, and Miller will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery on May 10.Sharp was buried Saturday in San Jose and will be honored at the Arlingtonceremony.

The four men were part of a reconnaissance patrol operating near the U.S.Marine base in Khe Sanh, Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam. They came underenemy attack shortly after midnight on May 10, 1967, while occupying a defensiveposition. During the firefight Ahlmeyer, Tycz, Sharp and Miller were killed. Thepatrol’s surviving members were rescued by helicopter later that morning but thebodies of the four men could not be recovered.

In the fall of 1991 several Vietnamese citizens visited the U.S. POW/MIAoffice in Hanoi claiming to have access to the remains of U.S. servicemen. One ofthe men provided skeletal and teeth fragments.

Between 1993 and 2004, eight joint U.S.-Vietnamese teams led by the JointPOW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) interviewed witnesses and surveyed theskirmish area. Two other joint teams conducted excavations during which materialevidence and remains were recovered. After extensive analysis, scientists fromJPAC identified Ahlmeyer, Tycz, Sharp and Miller.

Of the 88,000 Americans missing in action from all conflicts, 1,835 are fromthe Vietnam War, with 1,398 of those within the country of Vietnam. Another 748Americans have been accounted for since the end of the Vietnam War.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to accountfor missing Americans, visit the DPMO Web site at http://www.dtic.mil/dpm o or call (703)699-1169.

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