PAYNE, JOHN ALLEN
07/09/73 REMAINS RECOVERED
Name: John Allen Payne
Branch/Rank: United States Army/E4
Unit:
Date of Birth: 23 October 1947
Home City of Record: NEW YORK NY
Date of Loss: 04 November 1969
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 123000 North 1090400 East
Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
Category: 4
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: UH1H
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident: JOhn Anderson, Richard Bauer, Alfanso
Castro, Allan Kennedy, Rick Medaris, Marion Roach
Refno: 1516
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.
REMARKS:07/09/73 REMAINS RECOVERED
CACCF/CRASH/NON-AIRCREW/KHANH HOA
No further information available at this time.
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On September 5, 1973, the Central Identification
Laboratory–Thailand (CILT, now DPAA) identified the remains of
Staff Sergeant John Allen Payne, missing from the Vietnam War.
Staff Sergeant Payne entered the U.S. Army from New York and was
a member of the 155th Aviation Company. On November 4, 1969, he
was a passenger aboard a UH-1H Iroquois (tail number 68-16057)
on a routine administrative flight over central Vietnam. The
flight encountered inclement weather while over Lam Dong
Province and crashed, killing SSG Payne. A ground search team
was unable to locate the crash site and SSG Payne's remains
could not be recovered at the time. In 1973, U.S. investigators
located the crash site and recovered personal artifacts,
aircraft wreckage, and human remains, and were able to identify
SSG Payne from the remains.
Staff Sergeant Payne is memorialized in the Courts of the
Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
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