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">AlotTwenty-two were buried in a courtyard in the prison prior to the end of the Vienam War in 1973. The bodies were exhumed, brought to the United States, identified, then reburied, many at Arlington National Cemetery.
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The U.S. listed about 1,350 Americans as prisoners of war or missing in action and roughly 1,200 Americans reported killed in action and body not recovered.

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