Despite harsh weather, time, elevation and the odds: Identity. It was a fingerprint found in the ice last year that led to the discovery of 31-year-old Detroit U.S. Air Force Capt. William “Bill” Coombs, whose … Read More
More fragments from 1952 crash in Alaska found in glacier
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AP) — A lucky Buddha figurine, a flight suit, several 3-cent stamps, a crumpled 1952 Mass schedule for St. Patrick’s Church in Washington, D.C., and 480 bags containing individual human remains. … Read More
C-124 Globemaster Missing November 22, 1952 FOUND 6/9/2012
Colony Glacier: A Race Against Time Colony Glacier, AK – Operation Colony Glacier is underway, an annual mission conducted with joint forces to find and remove remnants and debris from a military plane crash 66 … Read More