USIP’s publications on the Vietnam Wartime Accounting Initiative provide critical insights, research, and updates that support the mission of helping Vietnam account for its missing war personnel.
When Nguyễn Xuân Thắng was young, he developed a passion for researching various documents, military studies, maps and weapons related to the Vietnam War. Eventually, he realized he could use these records to search for missing remains.
Since 2021, USIP’s Vietnam War Legacies and Reconciliation Initiative has contributed to stronger U.S.-Vietnam relations through research, communications and exchange about ongoing legacies of war in Indochina.
On the afternoon of March 12, 2022, I received an urgent message from Lâm Hồng Tiên, an engineer and close friend who has dedicated more than a decade to researching Vietnam War documents.
As the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War approaches in 2025, the subject of remains recovery, those missing in action, and the memorialization of war-related dead from the Republic of Vietnam (RVN or South Vietnam) deserves attention.
As the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War’s end nears, the U.S is helping Vietnam find wartime remains, furthering postwar reconciliation.
The U.S. commits to helping locate hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese citizens still missing from the Vietnam War. Urgent steps still need to be taken to heal the wounds of the war.