On June 12, 2002, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILHI, 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. His name is also inscribed along with all his fallen comrades on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC.

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