U.S. Navy · United States 
Michael D. Hemschmeyer
Michael D. Hemschmeyer served in the U.S. Navy for 4 years and 4 months. Michael served during the years of the Vietnam War and the Cold War.
Officer Michael Hemschmeyer was killed in a traffic crash while responding to another officer’s call for assistance around 2 p.m. A sedan that had pulled over for the officer’s emergency lights was struck from behind by a five-ton city garbage truck at 19th Avenue and the Salt River Bottom in Phoenix. The force of the collision threw the truck into the path of the approaching patrol car, killing Officer Hemschmeyer. Officer Hemschmeyer was a United States Navy Vietnam War veteran and had served with the Phoenix Police Department for four years.
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