US repatriates 3 sets of remains believed to be of 3 servicemen killed during Vietnam War
By APTuesday, June 22, 2010
US repatriates remains believed to be 3 servicemen
HANOI, Vietnam — An American official says remains believed to be those of three American servicemen killed during the Vietnam War have been sent to the United States for identification.
Spokesman Ron Ward of the U.S. Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command detachment in Hanoi, says one set of remains was recovered in central province of Quang Nam, and Vietnamese citizens handed over the others.
One set is believed to be of a Marine, while two others could be pilots who died in plane crashes, Ward said Tuesday.
According to the U.S. MIA office, since the war ended in 1975, 655 remains have been repatriated from Vietnam, and another 1,720 U.S. servicemen are still unaccounted for throughout Southeast Asia, 1,313 of those in Vietnam.
