U.S. to Get Remains of 27 MIAs
Vietnam will turn over the remains of 27 missing U.S. military personnel to the United States on April 6, the largest such repatriation since the Vietnam War ended, the Pentagon said today.
The return would leave 2,377 Americans still missing in Indochina, 1,750 of them in Vietnam, the Defense Department said. The remains will be turned over to a U.S. delegation in Hanoi and flown to Hawaii for identification by forensic experts, Pentagon spokesman Dan Howard told reporters. He said the largest such previous turnover was 26 on Aug. 18, 1985.
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