PAYNE, KYLIS THEROD

Name: Kylis Therod Payne
Branch/Rank: United States Navy/E2
Unit:
Date of Birth: 31 March 1951
Home City of Record: BALTIMORE MD
Date of Loss: 05 June 1972
Country of Loss: North Vietnam/Over Water
Loss Coordinates: 164500 North  1080159 East
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category: 5
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: AO63
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 1869

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. 2020

REMARKS:

CACCF/SEA CASUALTY SOUTH VIETNAM/DROWNED SUFFOCATED

No further information available at this time.

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02/2020

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SN KYLIS THEROD PAYNE

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Seaman Kylis Therod Payne entered the U.S. Navy from Maryland and served aboard the fleet oiler USS Chipola (AO 63). On June 5, 1972, he went missing from the ship while it was operating in the South China Sea. Investigators concluded that he had fallen overboard and drowned in the vicinity of (GC) 49Q AU 837 541. His remains were never recovered. Today, Seaman Payne is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

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