A Glacier Recovery Mission Delivers The Ghosts Of Fallen Troops

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A Glacier Recovery Mission Delivers The Ghosts Of Fallen Troops
By Amy Bushatz, Military.com
on June 29, 2018


JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, ALASKA — It’s a sacred annual mission: a group of mortuary affairs recovery experts arrives each June at a glacier high in Alaska’s Chugach mountain range to continue the hunt for the remains of 52 troops killed in an Air Force transport crash 66 years ago.

The C-124 was carrying 42 airmen, eight soldiers, one sailor and one Marine when it crashed into Mount Gannett on Nov. 22, 1952 as it traveled from McChord Air Force Base, Washington to what is now Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. Winter had descended on the treacherous mountain range, and no remains or wreckage were recovered at the time.

https://taskandpurpose.com/colony-glacier-recovery-mission/

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One of the few noble traditions left in this nation, it seems, is to spare no expense or effort to return our fallen, no matter how long they've been gone.