SHUMWAY, GEOFREY RAYMOND
[DoD records indicate GEOFREY, CACCF records indicate GEOFFREY]
Remains Returned 08/03/93
ID 06/12/2002
Name: Geofrey Raymond Shumway
Branch/Rank: United States Navy/O3
Unit:
Date of Birth: 22 October 1942
Home City of Record: SKANEATELES NY
Date of Loss: 25 June 1972
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 191100 North 1052700 East
Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A7E #157437
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 1883
Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews and CACCF = Combined Action
Combat Casualty File. 2025
REMARKS:
CACCF/CRASH/PILOT
No further information available at this time.
Buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Library of Congress files:
NVN: Narrative
Country: NVN
Name: Shumway, Geoffrey R.
Subjects: Aircraft downed; Nghe An Province; Crash site; Xom Bau
Reel: 183
Page: 54
Type of Document: Miscellaneous
Date of Report: 00 00 00
Date of Information: 72 06 25
Originator: JCRC
Category: Casualty files
VM: Remains CILHI 0207-90; Proposed Identification as Geoffrey R. Shumway,
LCDR, USN
Country: VM; NVN
Name: Shumway, Geoffrey R.
Subjects: Aircraft downed; Nghe An Province; Remains
Comments: Includes related 14 Feb 91 memo.
Reel: 183
Page: 98-102
Type of Document: Memorandum
Date of Report: 91 02 13
Date of Information: 72 05 26
Originator: USACILHI
Category: Casualty files
VM: Letters to ASGRO from private experts with results of remains analysis
Country: VM
Name: Shumway, Geoffrey R.
Subjects: Remains
Reel: 183
Page: 103-109
Type of Document: Letter
Date of Report: 91 02 28
Date of Information: 72 06 25
Category: Casualty files
| Subject: | Bracelet |
|---|---|
| Date: | Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:41:53 -0400 |
| From: | Michele Maro <queensno1fan@gmail.com> |
| When I was 15 in
1972 I got a pow/mia bracelet. I wore it all the time and I still have
it. It was for Lt. Geoffrey Shumway who went missing June 25, 1972
(coincidentally my dad’s 40th birthday-he was a Korean War vet with a
Purple Heart.) I wondered about Geoffrey over the years. Back then no internet or way to search. Something I saw on tv recently reminded me of him. So I searched and found out his remains had been found and was returned to his family. That he was a Navy pilot and had been posthumously promoted to Lt. Commander. I read he had a wife and brother. It has been so many years but if any of his family is still alive and would like the bracelet I’d be more than happy to send it. I’m still so sorry for his loss as I was back then. God bless. Michele Maro |
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02/2020
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000vsbNjEAI
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.
Lieutenant Commander Shumway is memorialized on the Courts of
the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
If you are a family member of this serviceman, you may contact your casualty office representative to learn more about your service member.