Fallen WWII airman Herald “Ray” Boyd remains returned home

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Sinton native Sergeant Herald “Ray” Boyd was shot down throughout an air assault in Germany throughout WWII.

Now, 77 years after he was labeled as being killed in motion, his remains will lastly be returned to family members and laid to relaxation.  

Boyd’s subsequent of kin, Larry Mayfield, mentioned his first thought when he acquired the decision about his uncle was one among shock.

“That’s all we ever knew of him, that was uncle Ray killed in the war,” Mayfield mentioned. “My mother and my grandmother never talked about him.”

Until 2018, when Mayfield answered a name from Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

“We were off on vacation when they called me,” Mayfield described, “first thing they asked me was if I was a nephew of Herald Ray Boyd. I said, ‘Yeah.'”

Mayfield was then notified that they’d be searching for his uncle.

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“At that point in time,  they thought they may have him, but they weren’t for sure,” Mayfield defined. “This was also the year that they actually went to Europe, dug him up, and brought him back to the United States.”

The fallen hero and misplaced member of the family was lastly discovered after so a few years.

Now, funeral preparations are being ready and Mayfield has determined that he would love as many individuals as potential in the neighborhood to pay their respects for this fallen hero. 

“I wasn’t going to be this way at first, but I want everybody to be there that didn’t know him or didn’t know of him,” Mayfield shared.

Boyd can be certified for a flyover, which Mayfield hopes will come to fruition.

“He was considered an airman, even though he was just a gunner on an airplane, but he was an airman, so he is qualified for flyover,” Mayfield added. “Just hoping that a lot of people show up for it.”

Anyone interested by attending the funeral, September twelfth, can attain out to Mayfield at [email protected] for added information concerning the service.

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