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From: Bob Necci & Carol Hrdlicka, Andi Wolos
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Re: USAF Reprot Details Rescue Attempt

Date: August 13, 1997

Regarding the USAF report that was declassified this week, the account of a rescue attempt to gain the release of five B-29 crewmembers is chilling.

On 24 May 1953, the US mounted an exercise to obtain the freedom of five men - First Lieutenants Gilbert Ashley, Arthur Olsen and Harold Turner, Second Lt. John Shaddick and Airman Second Class Hidemaro Ishida.

According to three other B-29 crews, there was a 'signal' of flashing lights. A report was authored by the Escape and Evasion Section of the 6004th Air Intelligence Service Squadron, and a rescue attempt, codenamed - Green Dragon - launched.

Ashley was able to communicate with the pilot of the rescue effort and as a result the Green Dragon Team was able to lock into Ashley's location. The aircraft sustained heavy damage, and the mission aborted.

If they ever launched another mission or why, if they didn't, may never be known. All we do know is that 43 years after the fact, the Air Force declassifies a report which ends up in the national Archives. And within its pages we read the names of men and their words... and we know they never returned. And we have to ask ourselves, where are they?

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