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WW II remains of U.S. crew found in Russia~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Chicago Tribune, Anatoly Medetsky, Associated PressThursday, September 6, 2001 American experts have found the remains of at least two Americans who died when their Navy bomber crashed on a volcano in Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula during World War II. Fending off fierce winds and roaming bears at the remote site, the experts sawed through the mangled mass of the plane’s wreckage during a month long expedition. They announced their findings Wednesday. The remains will be sent to the United States for identification, a process that could take up to a year, said Ann Bunch, an anthropologist for the Army’s Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii, which led the excavations. The DNA of the bones will be compared with that of the crew’s relatives, she said. The PV-1 Ventura crew were pilot Lt. Walter S. Whitman of Philadelphia; co-pilot Lt. John W. Hanlon Jr. of Worcester, Mass.; photographer Jack Parlier of Mt. Sterling, Ill.; mechanic Donald Graham Lewallen of Omaha; Samuel Leslie Crown Jr. of Columbus, Ohio; Clarence Crome Fridley of Manhattan, Kan.; and James Stephen Palko of Superior, Wis. The PV-1 Ventura bomber took off from Attu Island in Alaska’s Aleutian chain on March 25, 1944, flying west through darkness to drop bombs on the Japanese Kuril island chain. The treacherous route became known as the “Empire Express” and the men who flew it were “bats.” The Ventura was apparently hit by Japanese anti-aircraft guns, and the crippled aircraft crashed on the southern side of Mutnovsky volcano on the sparsely populated peninsula. For years the seven Americans aboard the plane were listed as missing in action because the Soviet Far East was off-limits to foreigners, Bunch said. A Russian geologist found the wreckage in 1962, but it wasn’t until 1999 that a local historian reported it to the U.S. government. U.S. officials traveled to the site a year ago and confirmed it was the missing plane. A 10-person team including forensics specialists arrived at the site on Aug. 6 to search for remains. Helped by Russians, they recovered from the wreckage and dirt bone fragments apparently belonging to two individuals, Bunch said. “There could be more in what we’ve found,” she said, because the body count depends on how many bones are duplicated. “But they probably do not have all seven.” “One possibility is that animals destroyed the [other] remains,” she said.
