SHARP, SAMUEL ARTHUR JR.

Name: Samuel Arthur Sharp, Jr.
Rank/Branch: E3/USMC
Unit: A Co, 3rd Recon BN, 3rd Marine Division, Khe Sanh, South Vietnam
Date of Birth: 09 February 1947
Home City of Record: San Jose CA
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
Refno: 0676

Other Personnel in Incident: Heinz Ahlmeyer Jr.; James N. Tycz; Malcolm T.
Miller (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. Updated by the P.O.W.
NETWORK 1998.


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.

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