74 Years Later, Remains Of U.S Airmen Found In Indian Jungle To Be Flown Home!

Remains of one or two U.S airmen who went missing in the 1940s World War Two missions will finally be returning home. 

According to report, the American airmen, eight in number, were among Allied pilots who flew risky routes over the world's highest mountains to deliver supplies from Indian airfields to Chinese forces from 1942. 

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), which deals with US soldiers missing in action, sent a team to Arunachal Pradesh state, northeastern India, in September 2015, to try to find wreckage of a B-24 Liberator plane downed in 1944 with eight men on board. The DPAA team painstakingly sifted through soil around the plane's wreckage in an effort to find the airmen's remains, they spent eight hours a day carrying out detailed searches on a steep slope, often roped together. The search was frustrated as they were stopped by the risk of landslides. 

At the end, their efforts paid off as the team reportedly found what is believed to be the remain of two of the eight airmen  in the mountainous jungles. 

The remain has be flown to Hawaii for DNA testing, before being flown home to their families in the U.S.