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JPAC Team Leaves For Alaska To Search For WWII Missing
RELEASE NO. #06-31 August 3, 2006
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Contact: Maj. Rumi Nielson-Green

HICKAM AFB, HAWAII –A JPAC recovery team left Hawaii Tuesday to conduct two recovery missions in Alaska for approximately 45 days to search for missing aircraft crew members from World War II.

Excavations will begin at one crash site related to a World War II-era flight. In December 1943, the flight left from Dutch Harbor for Kodiak Naval Air Station in Alaska. One man is still missing.

Engine failure was the cause of a second aircraft crash, December 1944. The site is slated for excavation to locate two unaccounted-for service members.

Any recovered evidence will be transferred to the JPAC laboratory to analyze.

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