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Team off to Aleutians to recover remains of WWII Navy aviators
Team off to Aleutians to recover remains of WWII Navy aviators
(EXCERPT) , By Wayne Specht, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Monday, July 28, 2003 Searchers from U.S. Army Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii are expected in the western Aleutian Islands this week to attempt recovery of remains of seven Navy aviators who died when their plane was shot down in 1942. The crewmen were aboard a twin-engine Navy PBY-5A amphibious reconnaissance aircraft that went down on Kiska Island, which Japanese forces occupied during part of World War II. Ian L. Jones, an Iowa-born associate professor of biology at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, came upon the PBY-5A wreckage in 2001 while conducting field research on rats living on the island. Central Identification Laboratory searchers will arrive via Air Force cargo aircraft on Adak Island, where approximately 4 tons of equipment will be l... U.S. and friendly nation laws prohibit fully reproducing copyrighted material. In abidance with our laws this report cannot be provided in its entirety. However, you can read it in full today, 28 Jul 2003, at the following URL. (COMBINE the following lines into your web browser.) The subject/content of this report is not necessarily the viewpoint of the distributing Library. This report is provided for your information and discussion. http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?...&article=16763 --------------------------- Otis Willie Associate Librarian The American War Library http://www.americanwarlibrary.com |
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