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Second Frozen Airman's Body Found On Sierra Glacier
Ktvu ^
| August 21, 2007
| KTVU/AP
Posted on 08/21/2007 8:32:36 AM PDT by RDTF
FRESNO -- Mountain backpackers have discovered remains believed to be those of a missing World War II airman resting atop a glacier near where an aviation cadet's body was found two years ago, authorities said Monday.
The second set of human remains was found in an alpine region of Kings Canyon National Park in the Sierra Nevada range on Wednesday, as little as 50 feet from where climbers spotted the ice-entombed body of Leo Mustonen in October 2005, park officials said.
Military anthropologists plan to analyze the largely decomposed body, which they believe could be one of three men who was flying with Mustonen when their AT-7 navigational trainer plane disappeared after takeoff from a Sacramento airfield on Nov. 18, 1942.
On board were Mustonen, of Brainerd, Minn.; pilot William Gamber, 23, of Fayette, Ohio; and aviation cadets John Mortenson, 25, of Moscow, Idaho, and Ernest Munn, 23, of St. Clairsville, Ohio. A blizzard is believed to have caused the crash.
All four were given a military funeral in Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, but for decades the servicemen's families have struggled to find closure. Mustonen was laid to rest in his hometown last year.
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airmen; mia; mustonen; wwii
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posted on
08/21/2007 8:32:39 AM PDT
by
RDTF
To: RDTF
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posted on
08/21/2007 8:34:25 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
To: RDTF
Even though the brave airmen died within the USA, they remain heroes in the greatest struggle for freedom in living memory.
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posted on
08/21/2007 8:34:50 AM PDT
by
Weeedley
(Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.)
To: RDTF
Sad but good that the remains have been discovered. The families can now find some closure.
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posted on
08/21/2007 8:38:40 AM PDT
by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: RDTF
See, Global Warming is a good thing.
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posted on
08/21/2007 8:39:47 AM PDT
by
Doctor Raoul
(What's the difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic? The Free Clinic knows how to stop leaks.)
To: Weeedley
You just inspired a great idea. Next time the moonbats read the names of the Iraq fallen to "honor" them, let's read the names of WWII heroes.
It will point out the hypocrisy of moonbats and reveal their real objectives.
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posted on
08/21/2007 8:41:49 AM PDT
by
Doctor Raoul
(What's the difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic? The Free Clinic knows how to stop leaks.)
To: RDTF
See, Global Warming is a good thing.
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posted on
08/21/2007 8:42:09 AM PDT
by
Doctor Raoul
(What's the difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic? The Free Clinic knows how to stop leaks.)
To: RDTF
See, Global Warming is a good thing.
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posted on
08/21/2007 8:42:14 AM PDT
by
Doctor Raoul
(What's the difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic? The Free Clinic knows how to stop leaks.)
To: Doctor Raoul
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posted on
08/21/2007 8:43:13 AM PDT
by
manic4organic
(Send a care package through USO today.)
To: RDTF
...and so begins another Clive Cussler novel.
To: RDTF
I flew a cameraman from the local news station around the mountaintop in 2005 taking video of the last airman found. It was very tough to find the excavation team on the glacier even at a relatively low altitude...
To: RDTF
Those rock packed clouds will do that ever time.
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posted on
08/21/2007 11:17:30 AM PDT
by
ANGGAPO
(LayteGulfBeachClub)
To: ANGGAPO
Those rock packed clouds will do that ever time. In formal meteorological terms, "Cumulogranite".
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posted on
08/21/2007 12:31:08 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: DuncanWaring
Or “granitocumulus” (which was the way my CFI put it).
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posted on
08/21/2007 12:31:59 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: Doctor Raoul
See, Global Warming is a good thing. You can say that again!
;-)
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posted on
08/21/2007 12:50:28 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
(More fun than a beer left in the freezer.)
To: RDTF
Would love to see Kings Canyon Natl. Park someday.
Glad they've found another lost Airman's remains. RIP.
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posted on
08/21/2007 12:54:14 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: ANGGAPO
Yeah, there's the remains of a B-24 on a mountain here in VT.
I'm pretty sure at least one guy survived, sans hands, and maybe feet (frostbite).
To: RDTF
No one thought to look for any of the others when they found the one body in 2005? Oxygen must be REALLY thin up there, lol!
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posted on
08/21/2007 1:11:39 PM PDT
by
Ignatz
(NPC's have feelings, too!)
To: RDTF
To: Ignatz
The others were probably still buried in the snow/ice.
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posted on
08/21/2007 3:37:03 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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