ALLARD, Michael John
Remains Identified 10/21/2000
Name: Michael John Allard
Rank/Branch: United States Navy/03
Unit:
Date of Birth: 12 September 1940
Home City of Record: Schofield WI
Date of Loss: 30 August 1967
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 183459 North 1054459 East
Status (in 1973): Killed in Action/Body not recovered
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A4E
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 0819
Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews and CACCF = Combined Action
Combat Casualty File.
REMARKS:
Pilot/Crashed
No further information available at this time.
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01/2020
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On June 6, 2000, Joint Task Force–Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now
DPAA) identified the remains of Lieutenant Michael John Allard,
missing from the Vietnam War.
Lieutenant Allard entered the U.S. Navy from Wisconsin and
served with Attack Squadron 153, Carrier Air Wing 15. On August
30, 1967, he piloted an A-4E Skyhawk (bureau number 151025) that
launched from the USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) on an attack mission
against enemy targets over North Vietnam. While near Vinh, his
aircraft was shot down, killing LT Allard; the wreckage crashed
and burned in mountainous terrain in Nghe Tinh Province, near
Yen Dung Ha, and his remains were not recovered at the time. In
1993, a joint U.S. investigation team traveled to the loss area
and recovered human remains, and in 2000, U.S. investigators
were able to identify LT Allard from these remains.
Lieutenant Allard is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing
at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
If you are a family member of this serviceman, you may contact your casualty office representative to learn more about your service member.