Scientists Trying to ID Frozen Airman -- for leftstreet and others!

[Radio_Lady]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/19/AR2005111900602.html



By AUDREY McAVOY
The Associated Press
Saturday, November 19, 2005; 8:10 PM

HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii -- The airman's possessions, laid out on a table in a military lab, offer a glimpse of America circa 1942: a fountain pen, a black plastic comb, three badly damaged address books, and 51 cents in dimes, nickels and pennies, dated 1920 to 1942.

A neatly handwritten note tucked into one of the address books reveals the words "all the girls know," but the rest is deteriorated and illegible.

Denise To, a forensic anthropologist with the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) attempts to put together skull remains from World War II at Hickem Airforce Base in Honolulu, Hawaii, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2005. JPAC is in the process of identifying the remains of serviceman found October 16 on Mount Mendel in Kings Canyon National Park in central California. The skull shown is not that of the airman. (AP Photo/Lucy Pemoni) (Lucy Pemoni - AP)
Forensic scientists at the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command are using these and other clues to help them identify a World War II airman whose remarkably well-preserved body was chipped out of a California glacier last month after two mountain climbers discovered his head and arm jutting out of the ice.

The airman is believed to have been one of four men aboard a navigational training flight that crashed after takeoff from a Sacramento airfield on Nov. 18, 1942.

The experts have spent the past few weeks examining his bones, taking DNA samples and studying his teeth to establish who he was and precisely how he died.

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[Ian David]

1. Bill Frist calls special session of Congress to re-insert his feeding tube

[Radio_Lady]

2. Very funny, IanDB1 -- sassy remark is appreciated! LOL!

[wordpix2]

4. hahaha LOL

[alarimer]

3. I didn't know California had glaciers

I didn't think the mountains were high enough. I guess you learn something every day.