Shelby Yoakum, chief of the Readiness and Plans Division at Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operation at Dover Air Force Base, led this year’s three-week recovery effort at the glacier.

A 1952 Mass schedule from St. Patrick's Church in Washington, D.C., was among items displayed Friday, June 26, 2020, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, after being found when military personnel scoured Alaska's Colony Glacier for human remains and debris from a military plane crash in 1952. At Dover, the process will begin to match DNA from the remains to samples that surviving family members have provided at the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory.It's not known how many of the nine service members who have not had matches yet could be among these remains or how long it might take to get results. “We’re hopeful that we’ll at least get a couple of new IDs out of this,” said Katherine Grosso, a medicolegal investigator with the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System. For years, she waited for the military to identify the remains of her grandfather, Isaac Anderson, who was 21 when the plane when down. "I think we can all safely say that there are still remains out there that have yet to melt out of the ice, and that we will be back for at least the next few years to continue this mission, especially since we have not identified all 52 that passed away," Yoakum said.The last area they found remains this year was about 200 metres from the toe of the glacier, where the ice falls into the lake.Officials could not say when all the remains and debris from the glacier would be lost to Lake George. In this June 18, 2020, photo provided by U.S. Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations, crash recovery team personnel assigned to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, search for crash remains at Colony Glacier, Alaska. "That was overwhelming," she said by telephone Friday. “I think we can all safely say that there are still remains out there that have yet to melt out of the ice, and that we will be back for at least the next few years to continue this mission, especially since we have not identified all 52 that passed away,” Yoakum said. She said they might have only several more years of searching the glacier before the debris field calves into the lake. On 26 January 1950, the Douglas C-54 Skymaster serial number 42-72469 disappeared en route from Alaska to Montana, with 44 people aboard. A military plane carrying 41 passengers and 11 crew members crashed into a mountain near Anchorage in 1952, but remains of the victims are still being discovered. So far, remains have been identified for all but nine of those on board the flight from McChord Air Force Base in Washington state to Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage.

A memorial service was held the following May. The bodies of 17 service members lost in a plane crash in Alaska more than 60 years ago have been recovered and identified, the Defense Department announced. Fifty-two people -- all members of the military -- were on board the Douglas C-124 Globemaster when it crashed while flying from McChord Air Force … Newsreels from the aftermath of the atomic explosions over Nagasaki and Hiroshima that ended war in the Pacific convey the fear, awe and jubilation at the power of the new weapons. “I know that in my heart there may be one or two because it just may be that way, but I’m hoping that all of them get closure, you know, to know that it has been found,” she said.Air Force Capt. It’s not known how many of the nine service members who have not had matches yet could be among these remains or how long it might take to get results. “There will always be reassociated remains from previously identified service members, and so we’ll be able to provide those, as well, to the families.” Tonja Anderson-Dell of Tampa, Florida, continues to lobby for the families of the nine service members whose remains haven’t been found, even after her own journey had closure. Two more of the 52 service members who were killed in 1952 when a C-124 Globemaster II crashed in Alaska have been identified, the Air Force announced on Thursday. Isaac Redmond, who was the mountaineering subject matter expert for the excavation.The human remains will be respectfully shipped to Dover in transfer cases, about the same size as caskets, and draped with flags.

Most of the crash fatalities have been found in previous missions but officials hope to find the remaining 15 this month. “We’re hopeful that we’ll at least get a couple of new IDs out of this,” said Katherine Grosso, a medicolegal investigator with the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System. A memorial service was held the following May. “That was overwhelming,” she said by telephone Friday. Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted.By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any manner CBC chooses.

Now, the race is on to identify as many service members as possible before the glacier dumps the wreckage into Lake George, which will become a final resting place for everything that isn’t saved. We use cookies on this site to improve your experience as explained in our Cookie Policy. Those were among the items recovered this month from Alaska’s Colony Glacier, where an annual somber search continues for human remains and debris after a military plane crashed 67 years ago, officials said Friday. Shelby Yoakum shows a lucky Buddha figurine, Friday, June 26, 2020, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, after it was found when military personnel scoured Alaska's Colony Glacier for human remains and debris from a military plane crash in 1952.

“The reality of the situation is all of the debris and the remains are constantly falling to crevasses, big and small, and moving down to the toe of the glacier faster than some,” said Army Staff Sgt. All of the 52 people on board were killed. The remains of 43 of the plane's 52 occupants have been identified through DNA testing from searches conducted every June since 2012, at the glacier north of Anchorage, Alaska. Isaac Redmond, who was the mountaineering subject matter expert for the excavation.

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