A ceremony was held at Da Nang international airport on June 24 to repatriate the remains of US servicemen who died during the war in Vietnam.

US Embassy’s charge d’affaire, Virginia Palmer, and representatives of the Vietnam Office for Seeking Missing Persons (VNOSMP) and the US Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) attended the ceremony.

Vietnamese officials transferred two boxes of remains which were recovered by joint US-Vietnamese teams during the 95 th joint field activity undertaken from May to June this year.

Those remains have been jointly reviewed by Vietnamese and U.S. forensic specialists who concur that they might be associated with U.S. servicemen missing during the war in Vietnam and recommended they be sent to Hawaii , U.S. , for further study.

Addressing the ceremony. a representative of the US Government expressed thanks and appreciation for the Vietnamese government and people’s humanitarian policy, goodwill and efficient cooperation, especially in granting permission for the first-ever participation by a US vessel, the UNNS Bruce Heezen Oceanographic Survey Ship, in searching several underwater sites off the coast of Vietnam.

This is the 110th hand-over of remains of missing American servicemen since 1973./.