A ceremony was held at the Da Nang International Airport on June 28 to repatriate remains of US servicemen who died during the war in Viet Nam, the Quan Doi Nhan Dan (People’s Army) newspaper reported.

Attending the event were representatives from the Board of Directors of Viet Nam Office for Seeking Missing Personnel (VNOSMP), the US Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City, the US Defense Attache Office, the Defence POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), and the US MIA Office in Ha Noi.

A ceremony to hand over US servicemen's remains to the US side. (Source: dantri.com.vn)

Two sets of remains found during the 123^rd Joint Field Activities from May to June this year were handed over to the US side.

The remains had been jointly reviewed and concluded by Viet Nam and US forensic specialists that they might be associated with the US servicemen missing during the war in Viet Nam and were recommended to bring to Hawaii, the United States, for further verification.

Speaking at the ceremony, the US Government representative appreciated Viet Nam’s humanitarian policy, good-will and the effective collaboration of the Vietnamese Government and its people.

The search for the remains of US servicemen missing during the war in Viet Nam is humanitarian cooperation between the governments of Viet Nam and the US.

This is the 138^th hand-over of American missing servicemen’s remains since 1973.

(Source: VNA)