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Offline StarOfAfrica2

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Navy recovering lost Hellcat
« on: August 03, 2006, 04:54:06 PM »


Picture from the newspaper showing one of the wheels from the fighter.

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THE MILITARY hopes to remove as much as 6,000 pounds of mud today from the rugged slopes of the Koolau Mountains to help find the remains of a World War II Navy pilot -- and bring closure to an Indiana family.

The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command has had teams of anthropologists and forensic scientists working at the crash site at the 2,500-foot elevation since July 21 trying to recover the remains of Navy Ensign Harry "Bud" Warnke, who was killed in June 1944 when his Hellcat fighter crashed into the Koolaus after completing four practice bomb runs.


http://starbulletin.com/2006/08/03/news/story04.html
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Offline nirvana

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Navy recovering lost Hellcat
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2006, 05:05:28 PM »
Good to hear another serviceman may be going home finally.
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Navy recovering lost Hellcat
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2006, 05:33:26 PM »
RIP Ensign.
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