The remains of two U.S. servicemen who had been missing in action from the Vietnam War have been identified with assistance from Hawai'i troops and were returned to their families for burial with full military honors, the Department of Defense announced Tuesday.

They are Capt. Warren R. Orr Jr., U.S. Army, of Kewanee, Ill.; and Airman 1st Class George W. Long, U.S. Air Force, of Medicine, Kan. Long was buried Sept. 30 in Medicine and Orr's burial is being set by his family.

On May 12, 1968, the men were part of a crew on a C-130 Hercules evacuating Vietnamese citizens from the Kham Duc Special Forces Camp near Da Nang, South Vietnam.

While taking off, the plane was hit by heavy enemy ground fire and exploded in mid-air soon after leaving the runway.

In 1993, a joint U.S.-Socialist Republic of Vietnam team, led by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command out of Hickam Air Force Base, traveled to Kham Duc and, with the help of local citizens, recovered human remains and aircraft wreckage at the site.