 |  SCHUMANN, JOHN ROBERT Name: John Robert Schumann Rank/Branch: O4/US Army Unit: Advisor, Headquarters, MACV Date of Birth: 02 February 1932 (Minneapolis MN) Home City of Record: Cokato MN Date of Loss: 16 June 1965 Country of Loss: South Vietnam Loss Coordinates: 102231N 1060107E (XS115470) Status (in 1973): Killed in Captivity Category: 1 Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground Other Personnel in Incident: (none missing) Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 01 September 1990 from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews. REMARKS: 66070 - RRS SAY DIED - J SYNOPSIS: Major John R. Schumann was an advisor from Headquarters, MACV, and his job was assisting a village chief in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam. On June 16, 1965, he was in an automobile with the village chief while the unit they were overseeing was operating about 5 miles northeast of the city of Vinh Long along the border of Dinh Tuong and Vinh Long Provinces. The unit was ambushed and Schumann and others were captured. The village chief escaped capture. Schumann was held with several Americans during the period he was a prisoner of war, and all who were subsequently released report that he died in captivity. In 1973, Henry Kissinger gave the Vietnamese a list of "discrepancy cases" on whom the Vietnamese should have information. John R. Schumann's name did not appear on that list. Since the war ended, the Vietnamese have made no effort to return the body of Robert Schumann, even though it should be readily available to them. Although dead, Schumann remains a prisoner of war. Others who are missing do not have such clear-cut cases. Some were known captives; some were photographed as they were led by their guards. Some were in radio contact with search teams, while others simply disappeared. Well over 1000 first-hand, eye-witness reports of American prisoners still alive in Southeast Asia have been received by 1990. Most of them are still classified. If, as the U.S. seems to believe, the men are all dead, why the secrecy after so many years? If the men are alive, why are they not home?
 
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