Cannot speak for the validity or accuracy of this new book, the author was too young to remember the war for one thing... but nearly ANY attempt to shed light on this matter seems possibly worth a scan if nothing else.
WHERE THEY LAY: SEARCHING FOR AMERICA'S LOST SOLDIERS, by: Earl Swift, (Houghton Miflin publisher) 307 pages, $25
(excerpt)
"...the story of how the Pentagon conducts MIA search and recovery operations in Indochina and elsewhere has not gone unnoticed. Newspaper and magazine articles, TV reports and a handful of books have described the 12-year effort to bring answers and solace to families at a cost to American taxpayers of about $100 million a year."
"From 2,583 Americans officially 'unaccounted for' in Indochina when the war ended in 1975, the list has been pared to 1,871. Hundreds who crashed over water or simply vanished will never be found, officials concede."
"In the end, the book deals equally with the disappointments as well as the successes of the ongoing search for Americans missing in action."
02-01-2004, 06:41 AM
War - MIAs
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