Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Top Stories: No troops left behind: More than 70 years after crash in Alaska mountains, military still sifting through ice and rock to find remains

The military's promise to leave no troops behind is being challenged by Alaska's harsh climate. Playing cards and uniforms are still being pulled from a glacier from a decades-old crash.

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Tue Sep 12 2023

 
 
(From left) Carlos Colon, an Armed Forces Medical Examination System medical legal investigator, U.S. Air Force Capt. Lyndi Minott, Operation Colony Glacier deputy planner assigned to Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations, and Katherine Grosso, an AFMES medical legal investigator, filter water in search of remains at Colony Glacier, Alaska, June 17, 2021. Operation Colony Glacier is an effort to recover the remains of service members and wreckage from a C-124   aircraft that crash landed in November 1952 with 52 military members on board. The wreckage was discovered in 2012 and a recovery effort has taken place each summer.
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