Accountability: At the end of the Vietnam War, there reportedly were 2,583 unaccounted for American prisoners, missing or killed in action/body not recovered. As of August 28, 2008, the Defense POW/MIA Office lists 1,753 Americans as still missing and unaccounted for, 90+% of them in Vietnam or areas of Cambodia and Laos where Vietnamese forces operated during the war.  A breakdown by year of recovery for the *830 Americans accounted for from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and China since the end of the war in 1975 follows:

 

1965-1974        War years: (recently identified)                     2  

1974-1975        Post war years:                                             28

1976-1978        US/SRV normalization negotiations:          47

1979-1980        US/SRV talks break down:                            1

1981-1984        1st Reagan Administration                          23

1985-1988        2nd Reagan Administration                       165

1989-1992        George H.W. Bush Administration            122

1993-1996        1st Clinton Administration                           259

1997-2001        2nd Clinton Administration                            94

2001-2006        George W. Bush Administration                   89