On 11 September, the Da Đà Nẵng Military Command announced it had received preliminary data on burial sites associated with Hospital 78, which served the 44th Quang Đà Front during the anti‑American war. The information was supplied by veteran Lê Đình Hùng, a resident of Cẩm Lệ ward, who gathered it while searching for the remains of his relatives. Before their deaths, two female liaison officers who operated in northern Quang Đà told Hùng that Hospital 78 treated wounded fighters and that most of those who died were interred nearby.
The focal area is the Ta La‑Hòn Quắm zone on Hòn Tàu mountain, where three burial fields are believed to contain close to 300 graves. Early cross‑checking of archival material indicates that in November 1969 Hospital 78 was located on Hòn Tàu, then part of the former Quảng Nam province covering Duy Xuyên, Quế Son and Nông Sơn districts. However, officials stress that the exact relationship between the place names Hòn Quắm and Hòn Tàu, the precise locations of the burial sites, the total number of interments and the identities of the fallen remain to be verified.
The command urges former combatants, relatives of the deceased, and anyone who served with the 44th Front or Hospital 78 between 1968 and 1972 to provide any details on unit movements, burial locations or casualty lists. Information can be sent to Lieutenant Colonel Cao Văn Long, Department of Policy, Political Office, Da Nẵng Military Command, at 0963 053 252. A March 1969 photograph showing dense B‑52 bomb craters on Hòn Tàu underscores the intensity of the fighting that likely produced the unmarked graves.