At the ceremony, the Vietnamese side handed over two sets of remains to the US side, which were found as a result of the 150th joint search in the provinces of Nghe An and Quang Binh from February to April 2023.
The remains were examined by Vietnamese and US forensic experts in Da Nang, who determined that they may be related to the cases of US soldiers who went missing in Vietnam and proposed that they be transferred to Hawaii for further verification.
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The remains to be put on the plane. |
The handover ceremony saw the presence of officials from the Vietnamese Office for Searching for Missing Persons (VNOSMP), US Ambassador to Vietnam Marc Knapper, Defence Attaché Thomas J. Bouchillon, and officials of the US MIA Office in Hanoi.
Joint humanitarian searches for US soldiers that went missing in the war in Vietnam have been conducted between the governments of Vietnam and the US since the late 1980s, becoming one of the cooperation pillars in overcoming the war consequences between the two countries. As many as 732 US soldiers who went missing in war have been identified.
