Posted at 8:02 a.m., Thursday, July 26, 2007
Hawaii lab to ID remains recovered from Vietnam War
Associated Press
HANOI, Vietnam — The suspected remains of three American soldiers killed during the Vietnam War have been sent back to the United States, a U.S. official said Thursday.Three cases holding the likely remains of three American soldiers left Da Nang in central Vietnam in a military aircraft headed for Hawai'i on Wednesday, said Ron Ward, an official of the U.S. MIA, or Missing in Action, office in Vietnam.
They are to be identified at a military laboratory in Hawai'i, Ward said.
The remains were recovered from three different sites — one in the north and two in central Vietnam — over the past three months, he said.
Nearly 1,800 U.S. servicemen deployed to Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War remain unaccounted for since the conflict ended in 1975, including more than 1,360 in Vietnam. An estimated 58,000 Americans and 3 million Vietnamese were killed in the war.
