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Offline ozrocker

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Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
« on: October 22, 2011, 07:48:09 AM »
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2011/10/army-air-forces-wwii-remains-missing-airmen-identified-102111w/






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Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2011, 08:54:40 AM »
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Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2011, 09:16:08 AM »
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Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2011, 11:23:31 AM »
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Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2011, 11:46:19 AM »
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Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
« Reply #5 on: October 22, 2011, 12:56:20 PM »
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wow 73,000 remain unaccounted for :(
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Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
« Reply #6 on: October 22, 2011, 01:10:19 PM »
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Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
« Reply #7 on: October 22, 2011, 01:24:03 PM »
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Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
« Reply #8 on: October 22, 2011, 01:31:29 PM »
Quote from: ink on October 22, 2011, 12:56:20 PM
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wow 73,000 remain unaccounted for :(

I never knew that. So many.

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Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
« Reply #9 on: October 22, 2011, 01:39:40 PM »
Quote from: Nypsy on October 22, 2011, 01:31:29 PM
I never knew that. So many.

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Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
« Reply #10 on: October 22, 2011, 02:11:02 PM »
my great grandmother got was a letter for the son that had moved to the us looking for work. he had been drafted and was going to a place called europe.  never heard from him again.  on my father's side, my grandma had several cousins that were called back to germany to fight for the fatherland.  2 or 3 of them joined the german navy, nobody knows what happened to them.  there just never came back.  there was no letter or anything to tell them what happened.


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Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
« Reply #11 on: October 22, 2011, 02:46:22 PM »
Welcome home gentlemen. Thank you for your service and sacrifice.  :salute

(This literally brought tears to my eyes.)
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Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
« Reply #12 on: October 22, 2011, 05:33:54 PM »
Welcome home and thank you  :salute

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Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
« Reply #13 on: October 22, 2011, 06:24:19 PM »
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Re: Remains of WW2 Airmen Id'd
« Reply #14 on: October 22, 2011, 11:02:58 PM »
Quote from: ink on October 22, 2011, 01:39:40 PM
ya me ether...very messed up.
Times were different and world access and communication limited in ways people now have trouble imagining.

I recall reading somewhere that there are something like 500,000 MIA North Vietnamese soldiers.  Just no way for a poor nation or a nation without the tech base to ID remains.  Our tech base and wealth have allowed us to raise our level of expectation to levels that would have been seen as absurd 75 years ago.
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