and Repatriation of American Remains June 1999 Defense Prisoner of War and Missing
Personnel Office
CONTENTS
SUMMARY
METHODOLOGY
HOW, WHEN, WHERE, AND WHY DID
THE VIETNAMESE
COLLECT AMERICAN REMAINS?
Remains Collection Outside
North Vietnam
The “Warehouse”
HOW MANY REMAINS DID VIETNAM
COLLECT?
HOW MANY REMAINS HAS VIETNAM
REPATRIATED?
Types of Unilaterally Repatriated
Remains
Historical Patterns of Remains
Repatriations
CILHI’s Forensic Evidence
of Storage
Evidence of Remains Collection
from Witnesses and Documents
Comparison of CILHI and DPMO
Concllusions
ARE ANY MORE STILL STORED?
APPENDIXES
HOW DOES THIS STUDY DIFFER
FROM PAST STUDIES?
WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF
SPECIAL “LIST” CASES?
TRADITIONAL VIETNAMESE BURIAL
PRACTICES
ACRONYMS
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