SMITH, MAYNARD LEE
08/31/74 REMAINS RECOVERED ID'd 11/11/74
Name: Maynard Lee Smith
Branch/Rank: United States Navy/E4
Unit:
Date of Birth: 13 November 1946
Home City of Record: TROY KS
Date of Loss: 07 February 1968
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 101618 North 1055643 East
Status (in 1973): Killed in Action Body Not Recovered
Category: ATC111
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground:
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 1041
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:
08/31/74 REMAINS RECOVERED ID'd 11/11/74
CACCF GROUND/DROWNED/SUFFOCATED/VINH LONG
No further information available at this time.
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Library of Congress files:
AN EXAMPLE OF THE CATEGORY "DIED WHILE MISSING"
Name: SMITH, Maynard L.
Comments: letter of transmittal only, document not enclosed
Reel: PDS42
Type of Document: Miscellaneous
Date of Report: 76 02 11
Date of Information: 00 00 00
Originator: OASD
Category: SHIELDS FILES
post-1975 Vietnam: Discovery of Human Remains in South Vietnam; Evaluation
and Report
Country: post-1975 Vietnam
Name: Maynard L. Smith
Subjects: Tra Vinh Province; Remains; Grave site
Reel: 43
Source Number: 0827
Page: 1-4
Type of Document: Refugee Report
Date of Report: 80 08 13
Date of Information: 68 02 00
Document Number: T80-066
Originator: JCRC
Category: Source Reports
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02/2020
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On November 11, 1974, the Central Identification
Laboratory–Thailand (CILT, now DPAA) identified the remains of
Engineman Third Class Maynard Lee Smith, missing from the
Vietnam War.
Engineman Third Class Smith entered the U.S. Navy from Missouri
and served with Task Force 117, River Assault Squadron 11,
Mobile Riverine Force. On February 7, 1968, he fell overboard
from an armoured troop carrier at the confluence of the Co Chien
and Tien Giang Rivers, Tra Vinh Province, South Vietnam. He
drowned in the incident, and his body was not recovered at the
time of his loss. In November 1974, U.S. investigators excavated
a burial site near a fish pond in Vinh Long, South Vietnam, and
recovered human remains and artifacts correlating to this loss;
EN3 Smith was identified from these remains.
Engineman Third Class Smith 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.