Verifying identification of military remains: a case study

The processing and reprocessing of repatriated remains of military personnel in the U.S. Army Central Identification Laboratory, Thailand, were a complex set of laboratory and administrative procedures. These procedures had been standardized and systematized to comply with the requirements of the case papers generated for each set of remains examined. Supplementary osteological data, obtained during laboratory examination but not requested by the standard forms, revealed additional information that suggested that the history of the remains was somewhat different from the accounts reported in the accompanying records or in the accounts related by the former inmates of the prison camps in North Vietnam.