The bodies of 17 US service members lost in a plane crash in Alaska almost 62 years ago have been recovered and identified, the Defense Department announced today, and are being returned to their families for burial with full military honors. Fifty-two members of the US Armed Forces, 11 crewmen and 41 passengers, were on board the Douglas C-124 Globemaster when it crashed while flying from McChord Air Force Base in Washington to Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska on Nov. 22, 1952. On June 9, 2012, an Alaska National Guard helicopter crew spotted aircraft wreckage and debris while conducting a training mission and three days later another team landed at the site to photograph the area and found artifacts that related to the wreckage. The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and Joint Task Force team conducted a recovery operation at the site later that month and in 2013 additional artifacts became visible and further recovery operations were conducted. View a brief yet touching documentary on the discovery below. The service members who have been recovered and identified are: US Army: Lt. Col. Lawrence S. Singleton, Pvt. James Green Jr. and Pvt. Leonard A. Kittle US Marine Corps: Maj. Earl J. Stearns US Navy: Cmdr. Albert J. Seeboth US Air Force: Col. Noel E. Hoblit, Col. Eugene Smith, Capt. Robert W. Turnbull, 1st Lt. Donald Sheda, 1st Lt. William L. Turner, Tech. Sgt. Engolf W. Hagen, Staff Sgt. James H. Ray, Senior Airman Marion E. Hooton, Airman 1st Class Carroll R. Dyer, Airman 1st Class Thomas S. Lyons, Airman 1st Class Thomas C. Thigpen and Airman Howard E. Martin #USArmy #USMC #USNavy #USAF #USAirForce #NationalGuard #KoreanWar
Posted on: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 22:22:10 +0000
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