They have interviewed thousands of witnesses and conducted archival research in all three countries regarding the fate of missing Americans, resulting in the discovery of crash and burial sites across the Teams work during several periods each year in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, alongside their foreignĬounterparts. organized its accounting efforts into the large-scale field operations which continue today. Continuous joint searches began in April 1988 in Laos, and in October 1991 in Cambodia. Were reached in Laos and Cambodia around the same time and occasional targeted investigations were done in China. As a result of the Vessey meetings, the Vietnamese permitted American teams to search throughout the country starting in September 1988. Issues to find ways to account for those still missing from the war. as a Special Presidential Emissary on POW/MIA Then in August 1987, President Ronald Reagan dispatched Gen. resumed its recovery efforts with high-level policy and technical meetings. On April 30, 1975, searches ended completely when the Communists took over Vietnam. Which caused restrictions of the ongoing recovery work. Rees was killed by guerrilla fighters while conducting search efforts, Identifying 63 servicemen, 23 of whom had died in captivity in North Vietnam, and five of whom had been killed in Laos. These searches met with limited success, recovering and and the Republic of Vietnam conducted joint, but restricted searches for Americans missing in South Vietnam.
listed 2,646 Americans as unaccounted for from the war, with roughly equal numbers of those missing in action, or killed in action/body not recovered.įrom February 1973 to March 1975, teams from the U.S.
Although Article Eight of the Accord called for mutual assistance among the parties in accountingįor the missing Americans, immediate postwar hostilities limited access to many sites. Some families and government officials expected a greater number of returnees, which gave rise to the urgency of the accounting mission. 27, 1973, Operation Homecoming returned 591 prisoners of war who had been captured in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia (two Vietnam POWs and a Cold War POW were released from China). Immediately after the Paris Peace Accords were signed on Jan.
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