Is a video of coffins arriving in the US showing soldiers that were killed in an attack in Kuwait in March 2026 during the U.S. attack on Iran? No, that's not true: The video is from December 2025 and shows the dignified transfer of two National Guard members and a U.S. civilian interpreter who were killed in Syria.
The claim appeared in a March 2, 2026, post on X account @TrumpTruthonX (archived here). It opened:
BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇮🇷
Soldiers coffins have arrived in the US
#Iran
#IranWar
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: Screenshot of X.)
The video posted on X does not show coffins of the ground-based forces stationed in Kuwait who were killed (archived here) during the U.S. attack on Iran in March 2026. The video shows the dignified transfer of two National Guard members and an interpreter killed in Syria on December 17, 2025.
The video posted on X uses a shorter, 55-second clip from a video published on PBS (archived here). That clip matches footage beginning at 2:46 in the PBS News YouTube video (archived here). The original video does not include music. Here is the original footage:
A screenshot from the video posted on X at :12 shows a plane in the background with tail number 1944, as this screenshot shows:
(Image source: Screenshot of X.)
That matches the plane in the background of the PBS News video, as this screenshot shows:
(Image source: Screenshot of YouTube.)
