(ĐN)- Australian veterans from the Vietnam War yesterday visited the Dong Nai province’s Museum to return the items and other belongings they found on Vietnamese soldiers killed between 1966 and 1971.
(ĐN)- Australian veterans from the Vietnam War yesterday visited the Dong Nai province’s Museum to return the items and other belongings they found on Vietnamese soldiers killed between 1966 and 1971.
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| Mr Bob Hall returns Commendation Certificate Of martyr Ha Van Loi to his daughter. |
At the meeting, Australian veterans Bob Hall and Derrill De Heer from the Univeristy of New South Wales returned Commendation Certificate of martyr Ha Van Loi to his daughter, Ms Ha Thi Tam, who is living in Tay Ninh province.
The veterans also handed over a collection of 40 sketches, which they had found after a battle between The Royal Australian Regiment and Vietnam Liberation Force on August 18, 1966, at a rubber plantation in Phuoc Tuy province, now Ba Ria-Vung Tau province, to the provincial Museum.
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| Mr Bob Hall hands the collection of 40 sketches to the provincial Museum. |
The collection will be exhibited at the provincial Museum in the soonest time.
Bob Hall and Derrill De Heer started “Operation Wandering Souls” in 2010.
The program makes use of Australian war records, maps, soldiers’ diaries, and other items.
It has created a comprehensive database indicating the approximate burial sites of 3,796 Vietnamese soldiers and so far helping identify the remains of around 450 Vietnamese martyrs.
Vietnam is still searching for the remains of around 300,000 soldiers listed as missing in action during the US-led war, including those of nearly 4,000 believed to have been killed in battles against troops from Australia and New Zealand.
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| Commendation Certificate Of martyr Ha Van Loi. |
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| Some of the sketches. | |
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