US Navy needs help finding the family of a WWII pilot
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US Navy needs help finding the family of a WWII pilot
Please send to anyone that might be able to help.
Navy wants to return World War II pilot's remains to his family
By Travis M. Whitehead
The Monitor
MISSION, February 20, 2005 - The U.S. Navy is trying to locate the
family of a Navy crewman killed during World War II after his remains
were recovered from the barren slope of a volcano in Alaska.
The remains of Seaman 2nd Class Dee Hall, a Mission native, were found
almost four years ago on the northwest face of Kiska Volcano in the
Aleutian Islands of western Alaska. He was found along with six other
crewmen who were in a twin-engine Navy PBY-5A amphibious reconnaissance
aircraft when the Japanese shot it down June 14, 1942.
The U.S. Navy would like to return Hall's remains to his relatives
but is having trouble locating them.
"It's of the utmost importance that we find them, because our
mission here is to make sure that no stone is left unturned in
resolving these cases," said U.S. Navy Lt. Robert Sanchez, POW/MIA
officer for the POW/MIA Branch of the Navy Personnel Command in
Memphis, Tenn.
No one in Mission seems to remember Hall or know the whereabouts of his
family. Mary Alice Martin, the granddaughter of John Conway who founded
the city, was attending college in Austin during World War II but she
remembers that many young men from here left to serve.
"Every fellow felt like it was his duty to go," said Martin, 81.
She recalls another Mission native who served in World War II and who
disappeared: Robert Landry, the brother of the late Tom Landry, the
legendary football coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
"We always thought his bomber exploded over the Atlantic Ocean,"
Martin said. His remains were never found.
Sanchez is thankful that won't be the fate of Dee Hall. The Pacific
edition of Stars and Stripes ran a story July 28, 2003, stating the
remains of seven Navy aviators, including that of Hall, had been found.
The plane, the story said, went down on Kiska Island, which Japanese
forces occupied during part of World War II.
The Stars and Stripes article said that an American search team found
the aircraft wreckage in 1943 and buried the crewmen in a common grave
at the crash site. The article quoted Ginger Couden, spokeswoman for
the U.S. Army Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii, as saying
that teams tried to recover the fallen servicemen in 1946 and 1947 but
"could not reach the site due to heavy snow."
Ian L. Jones, an Iowa-born associate professor of biology at the
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, found the wreckage in 2001
while conducting field research on rats living on the island, the Stars
and Stripes article said.
The gravesite, Sanchez said, had a cross with the words, "Seven U.S.
airmen."
Those seven airmen haven't been lost to history. The Stars and
Stripes article said John Cloe, historian for the Alaskan NORAD (North
American Aerospace Defense Command) Region and Alaskan Command at
Elmendorf Air Force Base, wrote about the incident in a book called The
Aleutian Warriors. In the book, Cloe says the plane "headed into
flak-filled skies over Kiska."
"Suddenly, the PBY came apart in a violent explosion," the article
said. "Pieces of burning metal fluttered down on the hillside
below."
Cloe lists the crew of the PBY-5A, assigned to Patrol Squadron 43, as
pilot Warrant Officer Leland Davis, co-pilot Ensign Robert F. Keller,
Petty Officers 3rd Class Albert L. Gyorfi, Robert A. Smith and Elwin
Alford, Petty Officer 2nd Class John H. Hathaway, and Hall.
In the article, Cloe says pilot Davis "was the last casualty of what
was called the Kiska Blitz," the consistent bombing of Japanese
targets in Kiska Harbor.
At the time the aircraft was shot down, the Japanese had just bombed
nearby Dutch Harbor on June 3 before taking Kiska Harbor two days later
and then Attu Island. Both Kiska and Attu islands are located at the
western end of the Aleutians.
Retired U.S. Army Col. Frank Plummer of McAllen said the Aleutian
Islands were not a major theater of military operations, but the
Japanese invasion created some concern for the Americans.
"They'd just started the Lend-Lease program and they were moving
supplies, equipment, armor, ammo, bullets, food through the Aleutians
to Vladivostok," he said. "Then it was shipped on the
Trans-Siberian Railway, so the U.S. didn't want to have any threats
to our shipping."
Vladivostok was located in the far eastern part of the Soviet Union.
The Lend-Lease program allowed the United States to provide Allied
nations defense supplies in World War II. The U.S. gave Lend-Lease aid
to Great Britain, the Soviet Union, China, and about 35 other nations.
The Japanese saw the Aleutians as a place where they could put even
more pressure on the United States, said Prof. Michael Faubion of the
University of Texas-Pan American.
"It was the only U.S. territory occupied," Faubion said. "It was
embarrassing. They only sent 9,000 troops; they were trying to distract
us. And they tied down 90,000 U.S. and Canadian troops at one point.
They were keeping a close eye on them."
The Japanese were pushed out of the Aleutians the following year, but
the remains of the seven crewmen were never recovered until now.
Since the discovery in 2001, the remains have been recovered and taken
to Hawaii where the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command is attempting to
identify the remains through dental and skeletal forensics.
"From what I understand, they are going to be able to ID these
people," Sanchez said. "If that doesn't work, they'll do DNA.
The good part of the job we do here is that we get to resolve cases
that have been unsolved."
Sanchez said only one man's family has been located; he's working
on the others, including Hall.
Anyone with information about Hall or his family should call Sanchez at
(901) 874-2666 or e-mail him at robert.v.sanchez@navy.mil
Posted by: Maurice Bernard on Feb 20, 05 | 12:00 am | Profile
Navy wants to return World War II pilot's remains to his family
By Travis M. Whitehead
The Monitor
MISSION, February 20, 2005 - The U.S. Navy is trying to locate the
family of a Navy crewman killed during World War II after his remains
were recovered from the barren slope of a volcano in Alaska.
The remains of Seaman 2nd Class Dee Hall, a Mission native, were found
almost four years ago on the northwest face of Kiska Volcano in the
Aleutian Islands of western Alaska. He was found along with six other
crewmen who were in a twin-engine Navy PBY-5A amphibious reconnaissance
aircraft when the Japanese shot it down June 14, 1942.
The U.S. Navy would like to return Hall's remains to his relatives
but is having trouble locating them.
"It's of the utmost importance that we find them, because our
mission here is to make sure that no stone is left unturned in
resolving these cases," said U.S. Navy Lt. Robert Sanchez, POW/MIA
officer for the POW/MIA Branch of the Navy Personnel Command in
Memphis, Tenn.
No one in Mission seems to remember Hall or know the whereabouts of his
family. Mary Alice Martin, the granddaughter of John Conway who founded
the city, was attending college in Austin during World War II but she
remembers that many young men from here left to serve.
"Every fellow felt like it was his duty to go," said Martin, 81.
She recalls another Mission native who served in World War II and who
disappeared: Robert Landry, the brother of the late Tom Landry, the
legendary football coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
"We always thought his bomber exploded over the Atlantic Ocean,"
Martin said. His remains were never found.
Sanchez is thankful that won't be the fate of Dee Hall. The Pacific
edition of Stars and Stripes ran a story July 28, 2003, stating the
remains of seven Navy aviators, including that of Hall, had been found.
The plane, the story said, went down on Kiska Island, which Japanese
forces occupied during part of World War II.
The Stars and Stripes article said that an American search team found
the aircraft wreckage in 1943 and buried the crewmen in a common grave
at the crash site. The article quoted Ginger Couden, spokeswoman for
the U.S. Army Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii, as saying
that teams tried to recover the fallen servicemen in 1946 and 1947 but
"could not reach the site due to heavy snow."
Ian L. Jones, an Iowa-born associate professor of biology at the
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, found the wreckage in 2001
while conducting field research on rats living on the island, the Stars
and Stripes article said.
The gravesite, Sanchez said, had a cross with the words, "Seven U.S.
airmen."
Those seven airmen haven't been lost to history. The Stars and
Stripes article said John Cloe, historian for the Alaskan NORAD (North
American Aerospace Defense Command) Region and Alaskan Command at
Elmendorf Air Force Base, wrote about the incident in a book called The
Aleutian Warriors. In the book, Cloe says the plane "headed into
flak-filled skies over Kiska."
"Suddenly, the PBY came apart in a violent explosion," the article
said. "Pieces of burning metal fluttered down on the hillside
below."
Cloe lists the crew of the PBY-5A, assigned to Patrol Squadron 43, as
pilot Warrant Officer Leland Davis, co-pilot Ensign Robert F. Keller,
Petty Officers 3rd Class Albert L. Gyorfi, Robert A. Smith and Elwin
Alford, Petty Officer 2nd Class John H. Hathaway, and Hall.
In the article, Cloe says pilot Davis "was the last casualty of what
was called the Kiska Blitz," the consistent bombing of Japanese
targets in Kiska Harbor.
At the time the aircraft was shot down, the Japanese had just bombed
nearby Dutch Harbor on June 3 before taking Kiska Harbor two days later
and then Attu Island. Both Kiska and Attu islands are located at the
western end of the Aleutians.
Retired U.S. Army Col. Frank Plummer of McAllen said the Aleutian
Islands were not a major theater of military operations, but the
Japanese invasion created some concern for the Americans.
"They'd just started the Lend-Lease program and they were moving
supplies, equipment, armor, ammo, bullets, food through the Aleutians
to Vladivostok," he said. "Then it was shipped on the
Trans-Siberian Railway, so the U.S. didn't want to have any threats
to our shipping."
Vladivostok was located in the far eastern part of the Soviet Union.
The Lend-Lease program allowed the United States to provide Allied
nations defense supplies in World War II. The U.S. gave Lend-Lease aid
to Great Britain, the Soviet Union, China, and about 35 other nations.
The Japanese saw the Aleutians as a place where they could put even
more pressure on the United States, said Prof. Michael Faubion of the
University of Texas-Pan American.
"It was the only U.S. territory occupied," Faubion said. "It was
embarrassing. They only sent 9,000 troops; they were trying to distract
us. And they tied down 90,000 U.S. and Canadian troops at one point.
They were keeping a close eye on them."
The Japanese were pushed out of the Aleutians the following year, but
the remains of the seven crewmen were never recovered until now.
Since the discovery in 2001, the remains have been recovered and taken
to Hawaii where the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command is attempting to
identify the remains through dental and skeletal forensics.
"From what I understand, they are going to be able to ID these
people," Sanchez said. "If that doesn't work, they'll do DNA.
The good part of the job we do here is that we get to resolve cases
that have been unsolved."
Sanchez said only one man's family has been located; he's working
on the others, including Hall.
Anyone with information about Hall or his family should call Sanchez at
(901) 874-2666 or e-mail him at robert.v.sanchez@navy.mil
Posted by: Maurice Bernard on Feb 20, 05 | 12:00 am | Profile
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The Simmons Family
Re: US Navy needs help finding the family of a WWII pilot
I'd call hoax.
When he signed up he would have listed next of kin.
Forensic genealogists are pretty easy for the US government to find, we are
listed on NARA's website and registered through them.
a.. Forensic Genealogy- determining and resolving identities and present
whereabouts of possible beneficiaries, heirs, or next-of-kin of a decedent
on both testate and intestate estates.
"Chris" <my_genealogy@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:1109200936.468872.63400@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
When he signed up he would have listed next of kin.
Forensic genealogists are pretty easy for the US government to find, we are
listed on NARA's website and registered through them.
a.. Forensic Genealogy- determining and resolving identities and present
whereabouts of possible beneficiaries, heirs, or next-of-kin of a decedent
on both testate and intestate estates.
"Chris" <my_genealogy@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:1109200936.468872.63400@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
Please send to anyone that might be able to help.
Navy wants to return World War II pilot's remains to his family
By Travis M. Whitehead
The Monitor
MISSION, February 20, 2005 - The U.S. Navy is trying to locate the
family of a Navy crewman killed during World War II after his remains
were recovered from the barren slope of a volcano in Alaska.
The remains of Seaman 2nd Class Dee Hall, a Mission native, were found
almost four years ago on the northwest face of Kiska Volcano in the
Aleutian Islands of western Alaska. He was found along with six other
crewmen who were in a twin-engine Navy PBY-5A amphibious reconnaissance
aircraft when the Japanese shot it down June 14, 1942.
The U.S. Navy would like to return Hall's remains to his relatives
but is having trouble locating them.
"It's of the utmost importance that we find them, because our
mission here is to make sure that no stone is left unturned in
resolving these cases," said U.S. Navy Lt. Robert Sanchez, POW/MIA
officer for the POW/MIA Branch of the Navy Personnel Command in
Memphis, Tenn.
No one in Mission seems to remember Hall or know the whereabouts of his
family. Mary Alice Martin, the granddaughter of John Conway who founded
the city, was attending college in Austin during World War II but she
remembers that many young men from here left to serve.
"Every fellow felt like it was his duty to go," said Martin, 81.
She recalls another Mission native who served in World War II and who
disappeared: Robert Landry, the brother of the late Tom Landry, the
legendary football coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
"We always thought his bomber exploded over the Atlantic Ocean,"
Martin said. His remains were never found.
Sanchez is thankful that won't be the fate of Dee Hall. The Pacific
edition of Stars and Stripes ran a story July 28, 2003, stating the
remains of seven Navy aviators, including that of Hall, had been found.
The plane, the story said, went down on Kiska Island, which Japanese
forces occupied during part of World War II.
The Stars and Stripes article said that an American search team found
the aircraft wreckage in 1943 and buried the crewmen in a common grave
at the crash site. The article quoted Ginger Couden, spokeswoman for
the U.S. Army Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii, as saying
that teams tried to recover the fallen servicemen in 1946 and 1947 but
"could not reach the site due to heavy snow."
Ian L. Jones, an Iowa-born associate professor of biology at the
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, found the wreckage in 2001
while conducting field research on rats living on the island, the Stars
and Stripes article said.
The gravesite, Sanchez said, had a cross with the words, "Seven U.S.
airmen."
Those seven airmen haven't been lost to history. The Stars and
Stripes article said John Cloe, historian for the Alaskan NORAD (North
American Aerospace Defense Command) Region and Alaskan Command at
Elmendorf Air Force Base, wrote about the incident in a book called The
Aleutian Warriors. In the book, Cloe says the plane "headed into
flak-filled skies over Kiska."
"Suddenly, the PBY came apart in a violent explosion," the article
said. "Pieces of burning metal fluttered down on the hillside
below."
Cloe lists the crew of the PBY-5A, assigned to Patrol Squadron 43, as
pilot Warrant Officer Leland Davis, co-pilot Ensign Robert F. Keller,
Petty Officers 3rd Class Albert L. Gyorfi, Robert A. Smith and Elwin
Alford, Petty Officer 2nd Class John H. Hathaway, and Hall.
In the article, Cloe says pilot Davis "was the last casualty of what
was called the Kiska Blitz," the consistent bombing of Japanese
targets in Kiska Harbor.
At the time the aircraft was shot down, the Japanese had just bombed
nearby Dutch Harbor on June 3 before taking Kiska Harbor two days later
and then Attu Island. Both Kiska and Attu islands are located at the
western end of the Aleutians.
Retired U.S. Army Col. Frank Plummer of McAllen said the Aleutian
Islands were not a major theater of military operations, but the
Japanese invasion created some concern for the Americans.
"They'd just started the Lend-Lease program and they were moving
supplies, equipment, armor, ammo, bullets, food through the Aleutians
to Vladivostok," he said. "Then it was shipped on the
Trans-Siberian Railway, so the U.S. didn't want to have any threats
to our shipping."
Vladivostok was located in the far eastern part of the Soviet Union.
The Lend-Lease program allowed the United States to provide Allied
nations defense supplies in World War II. The U.S. gave Lend-Lease aid
to Great Britain, the Soviet Union, China, and about 35 other nations.
The Japanese saw the Aleutians as a place where they could put even
more pressure on the United States, said Prof. Michael Faubion of the
University of Texas-Pan American.
"It was the only U.S. territory occupied," Faubion said. "It was
embarrassing. They only sent 9,000 troops; they were trying to distract
us. And they tied down 90,000 U.S. and Canadian troops at one point.
They were keeping a close eye on them."
The Japanese were pushed out of the Aleutians the following year, but
the remains of the seven crewmen were never recovered until now.
Since the discovery in 2001, the remains have been recovered and taken
to Hawaii where the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command is attempting to
identify the remains through dental and skeletal forensics.
"From what I understand, they are going to be able to ID these
people," Sanchez said. "If that doesn't work, they'll do DNA.
The good part of the job we do here is that we get to resolve cases
that have been unsolved."
Sanchez said only one man's family has been located; he's working
on the others, including Hall.
Anyone with information about Hall or his family should call Sanchez at
(901) 874-2666 or e-mail him at robert.v.sanchez@navy.mil
Posted by: Maurice Bernard on Feb 20, 05 | 12:00 am | Profile
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MikeS
Re: US Navy needs help finding the family of a WWII pilot
If you read your local paper you probably would have seen this story. It
was published in the San Antonio Express News. Wouldn't be too quick to
label it a hoax.
Mike
"The Simmons Family" <ericjami@telus.net> wrote in message
news:zyaTd.1250$TB.343@edtnps84...
was published in the San Antonio Express News. Wouldn't be too quick to
label it a hoax.
Mike
"The Simmons Family" <ericjami@telus.net> wrote in message
news:zyaTd.1250$TB.343@edtnps84...
I'd call hoax.
When he signed up he would have listed next of kin.
Forensic genealogists are pretty easy for the US government to find, we
are
listed on NARA's website and registered through them.
a.. Forensic Genealogy- determining and resolving identities and present
whereabouts of possible beneficiaries, heirs, or next-of-kin of a decedent
on both testate and intestate estates.
"Chris" <my_genealogy@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:1109200936.468872.63400@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
Please send to anyone that might be able to help.
Navy wants to return World War II pilot's remains to his family
By Travis M. Whitehead
The Monitor
MISSION, February 20, 2005 - The U.S. Navy is trying to locate the
family of a Navy crewman killed during World War II after his remains
were recovered from the barren slope of a volcano in Alaska.
The remains of Seaman 2nd Class Dee Hall, a Mission native, were found
almost four years ago on the northwest face of Kiska Volcano in the
Aleutian Islands of western Alaska. He was found along with six other
crewmen who were in a twin-engine Navy PBY-5A amphibious reconnaissance
aircraft when the Japanese shot it down June 14, 1942.
The U.S. Navy would like to return Hall's remains to his relatives
but is having trouble locating them.
"It's of the utmost importance that we find them, because our
mission here is to make sure that no stone is left unturned in
resolving these cases," said U.S. Navy Lt. Robert Sanchez, POW/MIA
officer for the POW/MIA Branch of the Navy Personnel Command in
Memphis, Tenn.
No one in Mission seems to remember Hall or know the whereabouts of his
family. Mary Alice Martin, the granddaughter of John Conway who founded
the city, was attending college in Austin during World War II but she
remembers that many young men from here left to serve.
"Every fellow felt like it was his duty to go," said Martin, 81.
She recalls another Mission native who served in World War II and who
disappeared: Robert Landry, the brother of the late Tom Landry, the
legendary football coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
"We always thought his bomber exploded over the Atlantic Ocean,"
Martin said. His remains were never found.
Sanchez is thankful that won't be the fate of Dee Hall. The Pacific
edition of Stars and Stripes ran a story July 28, 2003, stating the
remains of seven Navy aviators, including that of Hall, had been found.
The plane, the story said, went down on Kiska Island, which Japanese
forces occupied during part of World War II.
The Stars and Stripes article said that an American search team found
the aircraft wreckage in 1943 and buried the crewmen in a common grave
at the crash site. The article quoted Ginger Couden, spokeswoman for
the U.S. Army Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii, as saying
that teams tried to recover the fallen servicemen in 1946 and 1947 but
"could not reach the site due to heavy snow."
Ian L. Jones, an Iowa-born associate professor of biology at the
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, found the wreckage in 2001
while conducting field research on rats living on the island, the Stars
and Stripes article said.
The gravesite, Sanchez said, had a cross with the words, "Seven U.S.
airmen."
Those seven airmen haven't been lost to history. The Stars and
Stripes article said John Cloe, historian for the Alaskan NORAD (North
American Aerospace Defense Command) Region and Alaskan Command at
Elmendorf Air Force Base, wrote about the incident in a book called The
Aleutian Warriors. In the book, Cloe says the plane "headed into
flak-filled skies over Kiska."
"Suddenly, the PBY came apart in a violent explosion," the article
said. "Pieces of burning metal fluttered down on the hillside
below."
Cloe lists the crew of the PBY-5A, assigned to Patrol Squadron 43, as
pilot Warrant Officer Leland Davis, co-pilot Ensign Robert F. Keller,
Petty Officers 3rd Class Albert L. Gyorfi, Robert A. Smith and Elwin
Alford, Petty Officer 2nd Class John H. Hathaway, and Hall.
In the article, Cloe says pilot Davis "was the last casualty of what
was called the Kiska Blitz," the consistent bombing of Japanese
targets in Kiska Harbor.
At the time the aircraft was shot down, the Japanese had just bombed
nearby Dutch Harbor on June 3 before taking Kiska Harbor two days later
and then Attu Island. Both Kiska and Attu islands are located at the
western end of the Aleutians.
Retired U.S. Army Col. Frank Plummer of McAllen said the Aleutian
Islands were not a major theater of military operations, but the
Japanese invasion created some concern for the Americans.
"They'd just started the Lend-Lease program and they were moving
supplies, equipment, armor, ammo, bullets, food through the Aleutians
to Vladivostok," he said. "Then it was shipped on the
Trans-Siberian Railway, so the U.S. didn't want to have any threats
to our shipping."
Vladivostok was located in the far eastern part of the Soviet Union.
The Lend-Lease program allowed the United States to provide Allied
nations defense supplies in World War II. The U.S. gave Lend-Lease aid
to Great Britain, the Soviet Union, China, and about 35 other nations.
The Japanese saw the Aleutians as a place where they could put even
more pressure on the United States, said Prof. Michael Faubion of the
University of Texas-Pan American.
"It was the only U.S. territory occupied," Faubion said. "It was
embarrassing. They only sent 9,000 troops; they were trying to distract
us. And they tied down 90,000 U.S. and Canadian troops at one point.
They were keeping a close eye on them."
The Japanese were pushed out of the Aleutians the following year, but
the remains of the seven crewmen were never recovered until now.
Since the discovery in 2001, the remains have been recovered and taken
to Hawaii where the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command is attempting to
identify the remains through dental and skeletal forensics.
"From what I understand, they are going to be able to ID these
people," Sanchez said. "If that doesn't work, they'll do DNA.
The good part of the job we do here is that we get to resolve cases
that have been unsolved."
Sanchez said only one man's family has been located; he's working
on the others, including Hall.
Anyone with information about Hall or his family should call Sanchez at
(901) 874-2666 or e-mail him at robert.v.sanchez@navy.mil
Posted by: Maurice Bernard on Feb 20, 05 | 12:00 am | Profile
-
The Simmons Family
Re: US Navy needs help finding the family of a WWII pilot
"MikeS" <archangel@heaven.com> wrote in message
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Mayerthorpe, Alberta didn't carry it.
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If you read your local paper you probably would have seen this story. It
was published in the San Antonio Express News. Wouldn't be too quick to
label it a hoax.
Mike
"The Simmons Family" <ericjami@telus.net> wrote in message
news:zyaTd.1250$TB.343@edtnps84...
I'd call hoax.
When he signed up he would have listed next of kin.
Forensic genealogists are pretty easy for the US government to find, we
are
listed on NARA's website and registered through them.
a.. Forensic Genealogy- determining and resolving identities and present
whereabouts of possible beneficiaries, heirs, or next-of-kin of a
decedent
on both testate and intestate estates.
"Chris" <my_genealogy@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:1109200936.468872.63400@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
Please send to anyone that might be able to help.
Navy wants to return World War II pilot's remains to his family
By Travis M. Whitehead
The Monitor
MISSION, February 20, 2005 - The U.S. Navy is trying to locate the
family of a Navy crewman killed during World War II after his remains
were recovered from the barren slope of a volcano in Alaska.
The remains of Seaman 2nd Class Dee Hall, a Mission native, were found
almost four years ago on the northwest face of Kiska Volcano in the
Aleutian Islands of western Alaska. He was found along with six other
crewmen who were in a twin-engine Navy PBY-5A amphibious reconnaissance
aircraft when the Japanese shot it down June 14, 1942.
The U.S. Navy would like to return Hall's remains to his relatives
but is having trouble locating them.
"It's of the utmost importance that we find them, because our
mission here is to make sure that no stone is left unturned in
resolving these cases," said U.S. Navy Lt. Robert Sanchez, POW/MIA
officer for the POW/MIA Branch of the Navy Personnel Command in
Memphis, Tenn.
No one in Mission seems to remember Hall or know the whereabouts of his
family. Mary Alice Martin, the granddaughter of John Conway who founded
the city, was attending college in Austin during World War II but she
remembers that many young men from here left to serve.
"Every fellow felt like it was his duty to go," said Martin, 81.
She recalls another Mission native who served in World War II and who
disappeared: Robert Landry, the brother of the late Tom Landry, the
legendary football coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
"We always thought his bomber exploded over the Atlantic Ocean,"
Martin said. His remains were never found.
Sanchez is thankful that won't be the fate of Dee Hall. The Pacific
edition of Stars and Stripes ran a story July 28, 2003, stating the
remains of seven Navy aviators, including that of Hall, had been found.
The plane, the story said, went down on Kiska Island, which Japanese
forces occupied during part of World War II.
The Stars and Stripes article said that an American search team found
the aircraft wreckage in 1943 and buried the crewmen in a common grave
at the crash site. The article quoted Ginger Couden, spokeswoman for
the U.S. Army Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii, as saying
that teams tried to recover the fallen servicemen in 1946 and 1947 but
"could not reach the site due to heavy snow."
Ian L. Jones, an Iowa-born associate professor of biology at the
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, found the wreckage in 2001
while conducting field research on rats living on the island, the Stars
and Stripes article said.
The gravesite, Sanchez said, had a cross with the words, "Seven U.S.
airmen."
Those seven airmen haven't been lost to history. The Stars and
Stripes article said John Cloe, historian for the Alaskan NORAD (North
American Aerospace Defense Command) Region and Alaskan Command at
Elmendorf Air Force Base, wrote about the incident in a book called The
Aleutian Warriors. In the book, Cloe says the plane "headed into
flak-filled skies over Kiska."
"Suddenly, the PBY came apart in a violent explosion," the article
said. "Pieces of burning metal fluttered down on the hillside
below."
Cloe lists the crew of the PBY-5A, assigned to Patrol Squadron 43, as
pilot Warrant Officer Leland Davis, co-pilot Ensign Robert F. Keller,
Petty Officers 3rd Class Albert L. Gyorfi, Robert A. Smith and Elwin
Alford, Petty Officer 2nd Class John H. Hathaway, and Hall.
In the article, Cloe says pilot Davis "was the last casualty of what
was called the Kiska Blitz," the consistent bombing of Japanese
targets in Kiska Harbor.
At the time the aircraft was shot down, the Japanese had just bombed
nearby Dutch Harbor on June 3 before taking Kiska Harbor two days later
and then Attu Island. Both Kiska and Attu islands are located at the
western end of the Aleutians.
Retired U.S. Army Col. Frank Plummer of McAllen said the Aleutian
Islands were not a major theater of military operations, but the
Japanese invasion created some concern for the Americans.
"They'd just started the Lend-Lease program and they were moving
supplies, equipment, armor, ammo, bullets, food through the Aleutians
to Vladivostok," he said. "Then it was shipped on the
Trans-Siberian Railway, so the U.S. didn't want to have any threats
to our shipping."
Vladivostok was located in the far eastern part of the Soviet Union.
The Lend-Lease program allowed the United States to provide Allied
nations defense supplies in World War II. The U.S. gave Lend-Lease aid
to Great Britain, the Soviet Union, China, and about 35 other nations.
The Japanese saw the Aleutians as a place where they could put even
more pressure on the United States, said Prof. Michael Faubion of the
University of Texas-Pan American.
"It was the only U.S. territory occupied," Faubion said. "It was
embarrassing. They only sent 9,000 troops; they were trying to distract
us. And they tied down 90,000 U.S. and Canadian troops at one point.
They were keeping a close eye on them."
The Japanese were pushed out of the Aleutians the following year, but
the remains of the seven crewmen were never recovered until now.
Since the discovery in 2001, the remains have been recovered and taken
to Hawaii where the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command is attempting to
identify the remains through dental and skeletal forensics.
"From what I understand, they are going to be able to ID these
people," Sanchez said. "If that doesn't work, they'll do DNA.
The good part of the job we do here is that we get to resolve cases
that have been unsolved."
Sanchez said only one man's family has been located; he's working
on the others, including Hall.
Anyone with information about Hall or his family should call Sanchez at
(901) 874-2666 or e-mail him at robert.v.sanchez@navy.mil
Posted by: Maurice Bernard on Feb 20, 05 | 12:00 am | Profile
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dane
Re: US Navy needs help finding the family of a WWII pilot
"Chris" <my_genealogy@comcast.net> wrote in message
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The SSDI shows 54 people with the family name Hall with last residence in
Hidalgo County, Texas. Even if Dee Hall's family was found in the 1930
census, it would take work and good fortune to bring it up to date to 2005.
news:1109200936.468872.63400@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
Please send to anyone that might be able to help.
Navy wants to return World War II pilot's remains to his family
By Travis M. Whitehead
The Monitor
MISSION, February 20, 2005 - The U.S. Navy is trying to locate the
family of a Navy crewman killed during World War II after his remains
were recovered from the barren slope of a volcano in Alaska.
The remains of Seaman 2nd Class Dee Hall, a Mission native, were found
almost four years ago on the northwest face of Kiska Volcano in the
Aleutian Islands of western Alaska. He was found along with six other
crewmen who were in a twin-engine Navy PBY-5A amphibious reconnaissance
aircraft when the Japanese shot it down June 14, 1942.
The U.S. Navy would like to return Hall's remains to his relatives
but is having trouble locating them.
"It's of the utmost importance that we find them, because our
mission here is to make sure that no stone is left unturned in
resolving these cases," said U.S. Navy Lt. Robert Sanchez, POW/MIA
officer for the POW/MIA Branch of the Navy Personnel Command in
Memphis, Tenn.
No one in Mission seems to remember Hall or know the whereabouts of his
family. Mary Alice Martin, the granddaughter of John Conway who founded
the city, was attending college in Austin during World War II but she
remembers that many young men from here left to serve.
"Every fellow felt like it was his duty to go," said Martin, 81.
She recalls another Mission native who served in World War II and who
disappeared: Robert Landry, the brother of the late Tom Landry, the
legendary football coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
"We always thought his bomber exploded over the Atlantic Ocean,"
Martin said. His remains were never found.
Sanchez is thankful that won't be the fate of Dee Hall. The Pacific
edition of Stars and Stripes ran a story July 28, 2003, stating the
remains of seven Navy aviators, including that of Hall, had been found.
The plane, the story said, went down on Kiska Island, which Japanese
forces occupied during part of World War II.
The Stars and Stripes article said that an American search team found
the aircraft wreckage in 1943 and buried the crewmen in a common grave
at the crash site. The article quoted Ginger Couden, spokeswoman for
the U.S. Army Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii, as saying
that teams tried to recover the fallen servicemen in 1946 and 1947 but
"could not reach the site due to heavy snow."
Ian L. Jones, an Iowa-born associate professor of biology at the
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, found the wreckage in 2001
while conducting field research on rats living on the island, the Stars
and Stripes article said.
The gravesite, Sanchez said, had a cross with the words, "Seven U.S.
airmen."
Those seven airmen haven't been lost to history. The Stars and
Stripes article said John Cloe, historian for the Alaskan NORAD (North
American Aerospace Defense Command) Region and Alaskan Command at
Elmendorf Air Force Base, wrote about the incident in a book called The
Aleutian Warriors. In the book, Cloe says the plane "headed into
flak-filled skies over Kiska."
"Suddenly, the PBY came apart in a violent explosion," the article
said. "Pieces of burning metal fluttered down on the hillside
below."
Cloe lists the crew of the PBY-5A, assigned to Patrol Squadron 43, as
pilot Warrant Officer Leland Davis, co-pilot Ensign Robert F. Keller,
Petty Officers 3rd Class Albert L. Gyorfi, Robert A. Smith and Elwin
Alford, Petty Officer 2nd Class John H. Hathaway, and Hall.
In the article, Cloe says pilot Davis "was the last casualty of what
was called the Kiska Blitz," the consistent bombing of Japanese
targets in Kiska Harbor.
At the time the aircraft was shot down, the Japanese had just bombed
nearby Dutch Harbor on June 3 before taking Kiska Harbor two days later
and then Attu Island. Both Kiska and Attu islands are located at the
western end of the Aleutians.
Retired U.S. Army Col. Frank Plummer of McAllen said the Aleutian
Islands were not a major theater of military operations, but the
Japanese invasion created some concern for the Americans.
"They'd just started the Lend-Lease program and they were moving
supplies, equipment, armor, ammo, bullets, food through the Aleutians
to Vladivostok," he said. "Then it was shipped on the
Trans-Siberian Railway, so the U.S. didn't want to have any threats
to our shipping."
Vladivostok was located in the far eastern part of the Soviet Union.
The Lend-Lease program allowed the United States to provide Allied
nations defense supplies in World War II. The U.S. gave Lend-Lease aid
to Great Britain, the Soviet Union, China, and about 35 other nations.
The Japanese saw the Aleutians as a place where they could put even
more pressure on the United States, said Prof. Michael Faubion of the
University of Texas-Pan American.
"It was the only U.S. territory occupied," Faubion said. "It was
embarrassing. They only sent 9,000 troops; they were trying to distract
us. And they tied down 90,000 U.S. and Canadian troops at one point.
They were keeping a close eye on them."
The Japanese were pushed out of the Aleutians the following year, but
the remains of the seven crewmen were never recovered until now.
Since the discovery in 2001, the remains have been recovered and taken
to Hawaii where the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command is attempting to
identify the remains through dental and skeletal forensics.
"From what I understand, they are going to be able to ID these
people," Sanchez said. "If that doesn't work, they'll do DNA.
The good part of the job we do here is that we get to resolve cases
that have been unsolved."
Sanchez said only one man's family has been located; he's working
on the others, including Hall.
Anyone with information about Hall or his family should call Sanchez at
(901) 874-2666 or e-mail him at robert.v.sanchez@navy.mil
Posted by: Maurice Bernard on Feb 20, 05 | 12:00 am | Profile
The SSDI shows 54 people with the family name Hall with last residence in
Hidalgo County, Texas. Even if Dee Hall's family was found in the 1930
census, it would take work and good fortune to bring it up to date to 2005.
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Chris
Re: US Navy needs help finding the family of a WWII pilot
Not a hoax. maybe if I were a troll but all my posts have been on the
up and up.
My father was MIA for almost 34 yrs and it is a great thing to have the
remains home. I am only trying to help another family out and thinking
that a geneaology group would be the place to see if anyone knows
anything. I will be happy to send you the official copy for the
Department of the Navy it that is what it will take to make you a
believer
here is my signature
Chris Rich
Proud Son of Capt. Richard Rich
USN 1944-1967
MIA 1967-2000
Buried in Arlington National Cememetery 7Nov2000
I'd call hoax.
When he signed up he would have listed next of kin.
Forensic genealogists are pretty easy for the US government to find, we
are
listed on NARA's website and registered through them.
up and up.
My father was MIA for almost 34 yrs and it is a great thing to have the
remains home. I am only trying to help another family out and thinking
that a geneaology group would be the place to see if anyone knows
anything. I will be happy to send you the official copy for the
Department of the Navy it that is what it will take to make you a
believer
here is my signature
Chris Rich
Proud Son of Capt. Richard Rich
USN 1944-1967
MIA 1967-2000
Buried in Arlington National Cememetery 7Nov2000
I'd call hoax.
When he signed up he would have listed next of kin.
Forensic genealogists are pretty easy for the US government to find, we
are
listed on NARA's website and registered through them.
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singhals
Re: US Navy needs help finding the family of a WWII pilot
Chris wrote:
Close but no cigar -- sorry I can't help.
Cheryl
The remains of Seaman 2nd Class Dee Hall, a Mission native, were found
Close but no cigar -- sorry I can't help.
Cheryl
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Tara
Re: US Navy needs help finding the family of a WWII pilot
Here's the follow-up article.
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Brother of fallen seaman recalls sibling
February 21,2005
Travis M. Whitehead
The Monitor
MISSION - The brother of a sailor shot down over Alaska during World War II
thought the U.S. government had buried him in a cemetery there.
A story on the front page of Sunday's The Monitor about Mission native Dee
Hall, who was killed in 1942, caught the attention of several people here
who know James "Red" Hall, 87, a popular professional golfer. Red Hall, who
lives in McKinney, received a phone call from Laco Villarreal at Palm View
Golf Course in McAllen about the article that said a military team had found
his brother's remains in a common grave in Alaska.
Red Hall didn't know they were missing. Someone who knew Dee Hall had told
his father after the war that Japanese forces had buried the bodies, and
then the government had moved them to a government cemetery on the island.
Hall would still like for that to happen.
"I would like them to remove their remains to a government cemetery there,
if there is such a thing," Hall said.
The Pacific edition of Stars and Stripes ran a story July 28, 2003, stating
that the aircraft in which Seaman 2nd Class Dee Hall was a crew member was
shot down by Japanese forces over Kiska Island in the Aleutian Islands on
June 14, 1942. The article said that an American search team found the
aircraft wreckage in 1943 and buried the crewmen in a common grave at the
crash site. The article quoted Ginger Couden, spokeswoman for the U.S. Army
Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii, as saying that teams tried to
recover the fallen servicemen in 1946 and 1947 but "could not reach the site
due to heavy snow."
The Stars and Stripes article said that an associate professor of biology at
the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, found the wreckage in 2001
while conducting field research on rats living on the island. A recovery
team has since visited the site and taken the remains to Hawaii for
identification.
Hall was found along with the six other crewmen who were in the twin-engine
Navy PBY-5A amphibious reconnaissance aircraft when Japanese forces shot it
down.
"He was the tail gunner," Hall remembered. "They were making bombing runs on
the Japanese in the Aleutians. They completed their mission and radioed back
to base that their mission had been accomplished, and they were coming home.
That's the last they heard of them."
Hall said his father wanted to bring Dee Hall's remains home to Mission.
"I talked him out of it," Red Hall said. "It wouldn't help, and you didn't
always know what you were getting."
Red Hall and his brother Dee came from a large family of four boys and six
girls. Their mother had died and their father's employment took him away
from the family for long periods of time - Red had taken over many duties of
the family.
Maureen Duncan, 89, remembers how hard Red Hall worked to take care of the
family.
"He kept them together and kept them in school," said Duncan, who taught Dee
Hall at Wilson Elementary School.
"He was very nice and quiet," she said. "All these children were very
well-mannered."
When Red's younger brother decided to join the U.S. Navy at age 17, he
signed the papers. The two brothers met up the following year in California;
Red Hall was in the U.S. Army on one side of San Francisco Bay, and his
brother was stationed on the other side.
"We got in touch and had a good visit, three or four hours," Red Hall said.
"That was the last time I heard from him."
Hall, who is scheduled to be inducted into the Rio Grande Valley Sports Hall
of Fame this summer, said his brother was a great golfer and worked with him
in the pro shop at Shary Golf Course.
"He was a quick-thinking young man, very athletic," he said. "He was very
good at putting when he was on the green. He could make a short difficult
shot with not much target area. He was an outgoing young man and had a lot
of talent in the golfing world."
Hall hasn't told his remaining brothers and sisters yet - two older sisters
and a brother are deceased - about their fallen brother. He'll wait until he
learns more about the situation.
"If possible, I would like him to be buried with his crewmembers," he said.
The U.S. Navy could not be reached for comment Sunday afternoon.
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Brother of fallen seaman recalls sibling
February 21,2005
Travis M. Whitehead
The Monitor
MISSION - The brother of a sailor shot down over Alaska during World War II
thought the U.S. government had buried him in a cemetery there.
A story on the front page of Sunday's The Monitor about Mission native Dee
Hall, who was killed in 1942, caught the attention of several people here
who know James "Red" Hall, 87, a popular professional golfer. Red Hall, who
lives in McKinney, received a phone call from Laco Villarreal at Palm View
Golf Course in McAllen about the article that said a military team had found
his brother's remains in a common grave in Alaska.
Red Hall didn't know they were missing. Someone who knew Dee Hall had told
his father after the war that Japanese forces had buried the bodies, and
then the government had moved them to a government cemetery on the island.
Hall would still like for that to happen.
"I would like them to remove their remains to a government cemetery there,
if there is such a thing," Hall said.
The Pacific edition of Stars and Stripes ran a story July 28, 2003, stating
that the aircraft in which Seaman 2nd Class Dee Hall was a crew member was
shot down by Japanese forces over Kiska Island in the Aleutian Islands on
June 14, 1942. The article said that an American search team found the
aircraft wreckage in 1943 and buried the crewmen in a common grave at the
crash site. The article quoted Ginger Couden, spokeswoman for the U.S. Army
Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii, as saying that teams tried to
recover the fallen servicemen in 1946 and 1947 but "could not reach the site
due to heavy snow."
The Stars and Stripes article said that an associate professor of biology at
the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, found the wreckage in 2001
while conducting field research on rats living on the island. A recovery
team has since visited the site and taken the remains to Hawaii for
identification.
Hall was found along with the six other crewmen who were in the twin-engine
Navy PBY-5A amphibious reconnaissance aircraft when Japanese forces shot it
down.
"He was the tail gunner," Hall remembered. "They were making bombing runs on
the Japanese in the Aleutians. They completed their mission and radioed back
to base that their mission had been accomplished, and they were coming home.
That's the last they heard of them."
Hall said his father wanted to bring Dee Hall's remains home to Mission.
"I talked him out of it," Red Hall said. "It wouldn't help, and you didn't
always know what you were getting."
Red Hall and his brother Dee came from a large family of four boys and six
girls. Their mother had died and their father's employment took him away
from the family for long periods of time - Red had taken over many duties of
the family.
Maureen Duncan, 89, remembers how hard Red Hall worked to take care of the
family.
"He kept them together and kept them in school," said Duncan, who taught Dee
Hall at Wilson Elementary School.
"He was very nice and quiet," she said. "All these children were very
well-mannered."
When Red's younger brother decided to join the U.S. Navy at age 17, he
signed the papers. The two brothers met up the following year in California;
Red Hall was in the U.S. Army on one side of San Francisco Bay, and his
brother was stationed on the other side.
"We got in touch and had a good visit, three or four hours," Red Hall said.
"That was the last time I heard from him."
Hall, who is scheduled to be inducted into the Rio Grande Valley Sports Hall
of Fame this summer, said his brother was a great golfer and worked with him
in the pro shop at Shary Golf Course.
"He was a quick-thinking young man, very athletic," he said. "He was very
good at putting when he was on the green. He could make a short difficult
shot with not much target area. He was an outgoing young man and had a lot
of talent in the golfing world."
Hall hasn't told his remaining brothers and sisters yet - two older sisters
and a brother are deceased - about their fallen brother. He'll wait until he
learns more about the situation.
"If possible, I would like him to be buried with his crewmembers," he said.
The U.S. Navy could not be reached for comment Sunday afternoon.
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Please send to anyone that might be able to help.
Navy wants to return World War II pilot's remains to his family
By Travis M. Whitehead
The Monitor
MISSION, February 20, 2005 - The U.S. Navy is trying to locate the
family of a Navy crewman killed during World War II after his remains
were recovered from the barren slope of a volcano in Alaska.
The remains of Seaman 2nd Class Dee Hall, a Mission native, were found
almost four years ago on the northwest face of Kiska Volcano in the
Aleutian Islands of western Alaska. He was found along with six other
crewmen who were in a twin-engine Navy PBY-5A amphibious reconnaissance
aircraft when the Japanese shot it down June 14, 1942.
The U.S. Navy would like to return Hall's remains to his relatives
but is having trouble locating them.
"It's of the utmost importance that we find them, because our
mission here is to make sure that no stone is left unturned in
resolving these cases," said U.S. Navy Lt. Robert Sanchez, POW/MIA
officer for the POW/MIA Branch of the Navy Personnel Command in
Memphis, Tenn.
No one in Mission seems to remember Hall or know the whereabouts of his
family. Mary Alice Martin, the granddaughter of John Conway who founded
the city, was attending college in Austin during World War II but she
remembers that many young men from here left to serve.
"Every fellow felt like it was his duty to go," said Martin, 81.
She recalls another Mission native who served in World War II and who
disappeared: Robert Landry, the brother of the late Tom Landry, the
legendary football coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
"We always thought his bomber exploded over the Atlantic Ocean,"
Martin said. His remains were never found.
Sanchez is thankful that won't be the fate of Dee Hall. The Pacific
edition of Stars and Stripes ran a story July 28, 2003, stating the
remains of seven Navy aviators, including that of Hall, had been found.
The plane, the story said, went down on Kiska Island, which Japanese
forces occupied during part of World War II.
The Stars and Stripes article said that an American search team found
the aircraft wreckage in 1943 and buried the crewmen in a common grave
at the crash site. The article quoted Ginger Couden, spokeswoman for
the U.S. Army Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii, as saying
that teams tried to recover the fallen servicemen in 1946 and 1947 but
"could not reach the site due to heavy snow."
Ian L. Jones, an Iowa-born associate professor of biology at the
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, found the wreckage in 2001
while conducting field research on rats living on the island, the Stars
and Stripes article said.
The gravesite, Sanchez said, had a cross with the words, "Seven U.S.
airmen."
Those seven airmen haven't been lost to history. The Stars and
Stripes article said John Cloe, historian for the Alaskan NORAD (North
American Aerospace Defense Command) Region and Alaskan Command at
Elmendorf Air Force Base, wrote about the incident in a book called The
Aleutian Warriors. In the book, Cloe says the plane "headed into
flak-filled skies over Kiska."
"Suddenly, the PBY came apart in a violent explosion," the article
said. "Pieces of burning metal fluttered down on the hillside
below."
Cloe lists the crew of the PBY-5A, assigned to Patrol Squadron 43, as
pilot Warrant Officer Leland Davis, co-pilot Ensign Robert F. Keller,
Petty Officers 3rd Class Albert L. Gyorfi, Robert A. Smith and Elwin
Alford, Petty Officer 2nd Class John H. Hathaway, and Hall.
In the article, Cloe says pilot Davis "was the last casualty of what
was called the Kiska Blitz," the consistent bombing of Japanese
targets in Kiska Harbor.
At the time the aircraft was shot down, the Japanese had just bombed
nearby Dutch Harbor on June 3 before taking Kiska Harbor two days later
and then Attu Island. Both Kiska and Attu islands are located at the
western end of the Aleutians.
Retired U.S. Army Col. Frank Plummer of McAllen said the Aleutian
Islands were not a major theater of military operations, but the
Japanese invasion created some concern for the Americans.
"They'd just started the Lend-Lease program and they were moving
supplies, equipment, armor, ammo, bullets, food through the Aleutians
to Vladivostok," he said. "Then it was shipped on the
Trans-Siberian Railway, so the U.S. didn't want to have any threats
to our shipping."
Vladivostok was located in the far eastern part of the Soviet Union.
The Lend-Lease program allowed the United States to provide Allied
nations defense supplies in World War II. The U.S. gave Lend-Lease aid
to Great Britain, the Soviet Union, China, and about 35 other nations.
The Japanese saw the Aleutians as a place where they could put even
more pressure on the United States, said Prof. Michael Faubion of the
University of Texas-Pan American.
"It was the only U.S. territory occupied," Faubion said. "It was
embarrassing. They only sent 9,000 troops; they were trying to distract
us. And they tied down 90,000 U.S. and Canadian troops at one point.
They were keeping a close eye on them."
The Japanese were pushed out of the Aleutians the following year, but
the remains of the seven crewmen were never recovered until now.
Since the discovery in 2001, the remains have been recovered and taken
to Hawaii where the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command is attempting to
identify the remains through dental and skeletal forensics.
"From what I understand, they are going to be able to ID these
people," Sanchez said. "If that doesn't work, they'll do DNA.
The good part of the job we do here is that we get to resolve cases
that have been unsolved."
Sanchez said only one man's family has been located; he's working
on the others, including Hall.
Anyone with information about Hall or his family should call Sanchez at
(901) 874-2666 or e-mail him at robert.v.sanchez@navy.mil
Posted by: Maurice Bernard on Feb 20, 05 | 12:00 am | Profile
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Chris
Re: US Navy needs help finding the family of a WWII pilot
Tara,
Thank you so much. We never got the follow up, only the plea from the
navy for help.
Chris.
Thank you so much. We never got the follow up, only the plea from the
navy for help.
Chris.
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Chris
Re: US Navy needs help finding the family of a WWII pilot
I know the government has forensic Genealogists and are pretty good.
But I know of a case were the person is listed as POW last seen alive
and was also adopted as a young child and no exidence of his childhood
to go on. Even though they have Ancient remains DNA for him (they
think), they can not locate a realative to test them on.
Thanks for the help
Chris
But I know of a case were the person is listed as POW last seen alive
and was also adopted as a young child and no exidence of his childhood
to go on. Even though they have Ancient remains DNA for him (they
think), they can not locate a realative to test them on.
Thanks for the help
Chris
-
Chris
Re: US Navy needs help finding the family of a WWII pilot
I know the government has forensic Genealogists and are pretty good.
But I know of a case were the person is listed as POW last seen alive
and was also adopted as a young child and no exidence of his childhood
to go on. Even though they have Ancient remains DNA for him (they
think), they can not locate a realative to test them on.
Thanks for the help
Chris
But I know of a case were the person is listed as POW last seen alive
and was also adopted as a young child and no exidence of his childhood
to go on. Even though they have Ancient remains DNA for him (they
think), they can not locate a realative to test them on.
Thanks for the help
Chris