Re: WW II Remains Recovered, Sent to JPAC Hawai'i
Date: March 27, 2004
"Suspected
MIA remains arrive in U.S.
Associated Press
HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii -- The remains of what are believed to be seven
World War II servicemen arrived on American soil Friday, 60 years after their
transport plane crashed in Southeast Asia.
The remains go to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command's Central Identification
Laboratory, where scientists will attempt to identify them.
The remains are believed to be those of a crew whose C-47 transport plane crashed
in 1944 during an air supply flight between India and Burma, now Myanmar.
They were brought home in an American flag-draped coffin by investigators who
made the discovery at a Burmese crash site last fall.
"The hardest part is finding the families," said Lt. Col. Jerry O'Hara,
the command's public affairs chief. "In World War II cases and some in
Korea, it's a big hurdle."
The remains arrived at Hickam Air Force Base along with a second set of U.S.
World War II remains that was turned over by the Burmese government."
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