They were recovered from five sites in central Vietnam by joint Vietnamese-US teams.

They were transferred to the US Detachment Two of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) at the city airport by the Vietnam Office for Seeking Missing Persons (VNOSMP), the 104^th such repatriation since the end of the war.

Speaking at the handing-over ceremony, US ambassador Michael Marine said the US “welcomes and appreciates the cooperation and assistance of the Vietnamese government”.

According to Detachment Two, 863 Americans have been identified since 1975 – 616 from Vietnam, 215 from Laos, 29 from Cambodia, and three from China.

There are 1,783 still unaccounted-for, 1,393 of them in Vietnam.

Source: VNN – Translated by The Vinh