Quang Nam is one of thehardest hit localities during the US war, where over 14,970Vietnamese soldiers died in battle and another 445 went missing inaction.
At a meeting with the provincial veterans’association, the US veterans handed over dossiers with informationabout 1,200 Vietnamese martyrs killed in the southern province ofDong Nai and Ho Chi Minh City to support efforts to search forremains.
Since 1993, the VVA has provided Vietnamwith 295 dossiers on nearly 10,000 Vietnamese soldiers, assisting withthe discovery of the remains of 1,200 martyrs.
Founded in 1978, the VVA is a non-governmental organisation specialisingin supporting issues related to US veterans of the war in Vietnam .Over the past year, the VVA has also engaged in a number of activitiesto assist Agent Orange/dioxin victims in Vietnam.-VNA