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Coming Home: WWII Bomber Crew
Posted by Jacques on Tue Jan 07, 2003 10:06:21 AM
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Article today on 'Aero-News.net':
Their flight was just 15 miles long, as they crashed into a jungle mountainside in October, 1944.
Nine crewmen from the Army Air Corps' 360th Service Group -- a pilot, co-pilot, navigator, bombardier, aerial engineer, radio operator and three gunners -- left Nabzab, New Guinea on a training mission.
The Army won't release the names until the forensics are complete; but the site, in the Lae Morobe Province, will get new visitors, from the Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii. They'll spend two months in the recovery, before returning to the lab for final identification work.
A hunter found the wreck site in late 2002, and CIL investigators visited the site in November, noting human remains and effects, including some dog tags.
FMI: www.cilhi.army.mil