Class of 1958

Mike Allard was born in Wausau, Wisconsin in 1940 and even as a child, characteristics that would lead him to a life as a fighter/bomber pilot were emerging.

Attending Wausau High from 1954-1958. He participated in football and curled with his classmates. By his junior year Allard was voted Student Council and was playing on the Varsity Football team. “He was a kid who was incredibly reckless with his body,” said Mike Brockmeyer, who was the quarterback at the time. “He threw it around and had no fear. It made him a good football player and probably a good pilot as well!”

Lieutenant Allard entered the U.S. Navy where he served with Attack Squadron 153, Carrier Air Wing 15. On August 30, 1967, he piloted an A-4E Skyhawk that launched from the USS Coral Sea 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 the mountainous terrain near Tinh Province, near Yen Dung Ha, and his remains were not recovered at that time. In 1993, a joint U.S. investigation team traveled to the loss area and recovered human remains.

On June 6, 2000 Joint Task Force-Full Accounting identified the remains of Lieutenant Michael John Allard, missing from the Vietnam War.