U.S. Soldiers in Vietnam Search for MIAs
A new generation of American soldiers armed only with picks and shovels spread out across 600 miles of Vietnam on Thursday, searching old battlefields for fallen soldiers missing since the war.
The search mission--the largest since the end of the war--involves eight U.S. teams of specialists totaling 84 members and runs through Jan. 28.
Before now, the search for the remains of American MIAs was concentrated in northern Vietnam and Laos, where hundreds of airmen went down on bombing and other missions.
But the latest search has turned south, to the battlefields of what was South Vietnam before it fell to the Communist north in 1975.
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