Remains of Viet Dead Received
Associated Press
HANOI —
U.S. servicemen stood at attention under a hot sun today and saluted as comrades carried seven small wooden crates that Vietnam said contain the remains of Americans killed in the war that ended a decade ago.
A Foreign Ministry official said the remains were found around Hanoi and the port of Haiphong, prime targets of an intense U.S. bombing campaign in December, 1972, when at least 27 American planes were shot down and 93 airmen were killed, captured or reported missing.
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