Michael Lee Wertman
Company D 1/22 Infantry
4th Infantry Division
KIA April 5, 1969
CPL
- E4 - Army - Selective Service
4th Infantry Division
Grade at
loss: E3
Rank: Corporal
Note: Posthumous Promotion as indicated
MOS: 11B10: Infantryman
20 year old Single, Caucasian, Male
Born on Sep 28, 1948
From ROARING SPRINGS, PENNSYLVANIA
His tour of duty began on Nov 15, 1968
Casualty was on Apr 05, 1969
in KONTUM, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
MULTIPLE FRAGMENTATION WOUNDS
Body was recovered
Religion
PROTESTANT
Panel 27W - - Line 22
Michael Wertman was killed in
action while on Operation Wayne Grey, during an assault on NVA
positions
near LZ Cider in the Plei Trap Valley, at grid reference
YA811797, approximately 27 kilometers north of
Plei Djereng airfield.
CPL Michael E. Wertman's decorations
Michael is buried at Greenlawn Cemetery, Roaring Spring,PA.
Grave marker for Michael Wertman
Photo courtesy of Michael's sister Kathy Kensinger
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