Wilson, Mickey Allen
Army Chief warrant officer 2
Mickey Allen Wilson, age 24, from Mountain, California, Santa Clara county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, January 8, 1973
Death details: On October 5, 1999, Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Chief Warrant Officer 2 Mickey Allen Wilson, missing from the Vietnam War. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Wilson joined the U.S. Army from California and was a member of the 62nd Aviation Company. On January 8, 1973, he was the aircraft commander aboard a UH-1H Iroquois (tail number 69-15619) on a support mission over Quang Tri Province, Vietnam. The Iroquois was shot down during the mission, and CW2 Wilson went missing following the incident, and was later declared dead. Enemy presence in the area prevented ground searches for the Iroquois at the time. In 1996, a joint U.S. and Vietnamese investigative team recovered remains from a site associated with CW2 Wilson’s loss. In 1999, forensic analysis identified some of the recovered remains as those of CW2 Wilson.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency