April 2009
JPAC has identified the crew remains from the B-24 found in the film!!! Read the press release from DPMO!!!!..
Local Texas news story on the Doyles and the JPAC identification of Jimmie Doyle....KTXS
Information from the Doyles on JPAC identification of Jimmie Doyle and 7 other crew from the B-24!! http://www.bentprop.org/pm11/pr_docs/25-mar10.htm
Local CA news story Davis Enterprise.
***
June 2008
B-24 MIA recovery by JPAC GQ magazine article June 2008...by Wil Hylton...
***
April 23, 2008
The US Navy sent an honor guard to pick up the coffin and MIA remains and escorted him to Travis AFB and then to Hawaii for JPAC to pursue DNA testing as to who it may really be.
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/886112.html
http://cbs13.com/local/wrong.world.war.2.707212.html
***
March 5, 2008
Breaking MIA news on a story seen in the film, "Last Flight Home"!!
One of the discoveries by BentProp in Palau was a TBM Avenger with a crew of 3 Navy airmen in 2003.
http://www.bentprop.org/pm5/pm5-04.htm
http://www.bentprop.org/pm7/family_report/pm7_fr_01.htm
http://www.bentprop.org/pm8/final_report/pm8_report_atch_08.htm
In 2005 the recovery operations for remains of the MIAs by JPAC, http://www.jpac.pacom.mil/ ,raised doubts in a family in Stockton as to remains that were returned 60 years ago from this crash site. They have recently proven to not be the family member in the family crypt.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20080424/ai_n25372406/?tag=content;col1
* |