Pieces of US Navy plane found under Mekong Delta pond

Metal pieces that belonged to a U.S. Navy plane are excavated from a pond in Tra Vinh. Photo by VnExpress/Chau Thanh

Military engineers are examining the remains of a U.S. Navy plane found under a pond by a local man and sold as scrap in Tra Vinh Province.

Colonel Tran Quoc Khanh, deputy head of the 9th Military Region staff department’s engineering division, said Wednesday a team checking metal pieces and parachutes found on land owned by Le Van Cham, 54, in the southern province found ‘US.NAVY’ written on the latter.

"We believe these are the remains of a plane shot during the war."

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