The World - News from Dec. 2, 1985
The United States and Vietnam completed their first joint excavation of a U.S. warplane crash site but held only slim hope of identifying missing American servicemen from the unearthed bone fragments. A spokeswoman for the American team said excavators stopped digging after having exhausted the possibilities of finding more remains at Yen Thoung, nine miles north of Hanoi, where a B-52 bomber was shot down in 1972.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
