Missing airmen sought -- from WW2

A US team is visiting the remote state of Arunachal Pradesh in north-east India to search for the remains of US pilots who crashed during WWII. . .

It is thought the remains of up to 400 Americans could still be in Arunachal Pradesh, which borders Burma and China.

This is only one part of a long-running and much larger operation, however.

More than 78,000 Americans are unaccounted for from World War II, with the remains of about 35,000 deemed recoverable. . .

There are more than 1,300 individuals missing - primarily from aircraft crashes - in and around the border area between India, Burma and China, an area known to pilots as "the Hump".

From the BBC.

Posted by David on June 24, 2008 3:05 PM