On December 5, 1965, the minesweeper USS Dynamic (MSO 432) was anchored offshore of Vung Tau, South Vietnam. A group of sailors on the deck accidentally knocked one man overboard. He was a poor swimmer and immediately began calling for help. Two other sailors jumped into the water to help him, while others tossed life jackets and rings into the water and launched a life raft. One of the two swimmers who had jumped in to help the first sailor then began calling for help and quickly went under the surface of the water in the vicinity of (GC) 48P YS 280 412. An intensive search by three vessels in the harbor at the time failed to locate the body of the drowned sailor.

Electrician's Mate Third Class Jimmy Don Hyde, who joined the U.S. Navy from Oklahoma, served aboard the Dynamic and was one of two men who jumped into the water to rescue the sailor who had been knocked overboard. He drowned before he could reach the man he was trying to help, and his body was not recovered. Today, Electrician's Mate Third Class Hyde is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. 

Based on all information available, DPAA assessed the individual's case to be in the analytical category of Non-recoverable.

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