Shumway, Geoffrey Raymond
Navy Lieutenant commander

Geoffrey Raymond Shumway from Skaneateles, New York, Onondaga county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: June 25, 1972
Death details: On June 12, 2002, Joint Task Force–Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Lieutenant Commander Geoffrey Raymond Shumway, missing from the Vietnam War.

Lieutenant Commander Shumway entered the U.S. Navy from New York and served with Attack Squadron 22, Carrier Air Wing 15. On June 25, 1972, he piloted an A-7E Corsair II (bureau number 157437, call sign “Beefeater 311”) that launched from the USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) on an armed reconnaissance mission over North Vietnam. While attacking a target, the aircraft was shot down by enemy fire over Nghe An Province, and LCDR Shumway was killed in the incident. Search efforts did not locate the wreckage and LCDR Shumway’s remains were not recovered at the time. In 1993, a joint U.S./Vietnamese team recovered remains that U.S. analysts eventually identified as those of LCDR Shumway.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency