A military transport aircraft is set to carry 7,104 biological samples from the remains of war martyrs from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi for DNA testing, as part of efforts to identify fallen soldiers whose identities have yet to be determined.

HCMC has collected 9,854 biological samples from fallen soldiers’ remains as DNA testing efforts accelerate, while 358 sets of remains have been recovered from Le Thi Rieng Park.

A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Van Gau held talks with the US Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) on August 14.

More than 50 years after soldier Nguyen Thanh Binh was killed in action, veteran Vo Van Toan still remembers every landmark near his comrade's burial site. From sketches drawn from memory, a new search campaign was launched.

Deputy Prime Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra has ordered the completion of a comprehensive database covering fallen soldiers, their graves, cemeteries and records by the end of this year.

More than 1,700 remains of fallen soldiers have been recovered under a nationwide campaign to accelerate the search, recovery and identification of war martyrs’ remains, according to the national steering committee.

A Vietnamese defence delegation on August 12 held working sessions at the University of Georgia and a leading US military forensic facility on the search for and identification of martyrs’ remains.

Eight mass graves containing the remains of war martyrs have been uncovered at Le Thi Rieng Park in Ho Chi Minh City, as search teams continue efforts to recover and identify remains of fallen soldiers.

More than six decades after Thich Quang Duc’s historic self-immolation, the Austin that carried him to the site remains preserved at Thien Mu Pagoda in Hue.

The Ho Chi Minh City Command says a recovery team has found 11 more sets of remains of fallen soldiers in a second burial trench at Le Thi Rieng Park, bringing the total recovered to 256, along with 151 sets of artifacts.

The Ho Chi Minh City Command said 18 more sets of fallen soldiers’ remains and 14 groups of accompanying artifacts had been uncovered during the continued excavation of a second burial trench at Le Thi Rieng Park.

The commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command described Vietnam as a positive force for ASEAN centrality and maritime security in the East Sea during a visit to Vietnam.

Tay Ninh has recovered 519 sets of fallen soldiers' remains in Vietnam and Cambodia, with most of the DNA sampling completed after 60 days of a nationwide 500-day campaign to speed up the search, as well as the 2025–2026 dry-season recovery mission.

Search teams have recovered the remains of 150 fallen soldiers at Le Thi Rieng Park in Ho Chi Minh City since the excavation began on June 23, according to the Ho Chi Minh City High Command.

More than half a century after the war, San Diu ethnic veteran Do Van Thong in Quang Hanh Ward (Quang Ninh) has kept a military map as a treasure.

Bearing many injuries from the war, Vietnamese Heroic Mother Nguyen Thi Thanh Xuan had to endure pain once again after her son sacrificed his life while performing rescue duty in peacetime.

What began with a set of military insignia given as a gift has grown into a collection of more than 500 military and police artifacts, creating a space where a Buddhist monk preserves stories of service, sacrifice and patriotism.

Every July 27, families in two Da Nang villages prepare meals and light incense for hundreds who sacrificed in war -including those whose remains have never been found.

For hundreds of students in Ho Chi Minh City, history moved beyond the textbook as veterans shared wartime memories alongside artifacts preserved for generations.