Photo taken in December 1995 shows US servicemen draping the American flag over coffins containing the possible remains of US servicemen that are missing in action in the war in Vietnam Photo:thanhniennews.com

(VOVworld)- A repatriation ceremony for remains of US servicemen who died during the war in Vietnam was held at Noi Bai International Airport on Saturday. Attending the event were representatives from the Board of Directors of Vietnam Office for Seeking Missing Personnel (VNOSMP) and the US Embassy in Hanoi, the US Defense Attaché Office, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) and the US MIA Office in Hanoi.
The Vietnamese side’s representative handed over to the US side two boxes of remains which were recovered during the 117^th Joint Field Activities from October to December, 2014. The remains had been jointly examined and by Vietnamese and US forensic specialists who concluded that they might be associated with the US servicemen missing during the war in Vietnam. The remains will be brought to Hawaii for further examination. The search for the remains of US servicemen missing during the war in Vietnam is an humanitarian activity between the Vietnamese and US governments. This is the 133^rd handover of American missing servicemen’s remains since 1973.