Australians Missing In Action In The Vietnam War
No Australian servicemen remain missing in action from the Vietnam War.
At the end of the Vietnam War 6 Australians were among the 2,338 people then listed as missing in action in the Vietnam War. Four Australian army soldiers and two Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) were classified "missing in action" in four separate incidents with all six presumed to have been killed in action. All the remains of the servicemen missing in action have been found as of 30 July 2009.
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