The World - News from Nov. 20, 1985
U.S. and Vietnamese searchers found human bone fragments and what may be parts of a B-52 bomber that crashed in 1972 in a vegetable garden nine miles north of Hanoi. Col. Joe Harvey, the U.S. team leader, reported finding the bone fragments and “some small pieces of wreckage that suggest this is a U.S. aircraft.” Twelve Americans and several Vietnamese took part in the unprecedented joint excavation effort.
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