Posted on 05/26/2008 5:49:43 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
A Cannon Falls man who travels the world looking for the remains of U.S. troops still missing in action has found another 21 dog tags.
Eighty-year-old Bryan Moon spent two weeks earlier this month in the jungles of Papua-New Guinea. It was his sixth trip the South Pacific Island.
While there, he says bought 21 dog tags from American servicemen from local villagers. He doesn't know if they were left behind or are from missing troops.
The tags have been turned over to the U.S. Army Recovery Unit in Hawaii for further investigation.
Moon says he also found two "killing fields" where local people say Japanese troops executed American and Australian prisoners of war. He turned over that information as well.
Moon and his volunteers have now made 23 trips in search troops still considered missing in action during World War II.
Bless him for finding the answers
“Moon says he also found two “killing fields” where local people say Japanese troops executed American and Australian prisoners of war”
Quite possibly some of these Japanese are retired from Nissan, Mitsubishi, Honda, etc. and are living quiet and comfortable in their senior years.
My late Father was in Papua-New Guinea during WWII. He said it was a strange combination of modern warfare against the Japanese while naked tribesmen with spears ran around in the jungles and highlands.
God bless this precious man. He truly has found a pearl of great price and this keeps him going, even in his old age. What a wonderful example he is.
Let’s all hope that we’re doing something this important when we’re 80....
The group's Web site, FYI.
INDEED! What a great ministry he has.
Our family was notified earlier this month that my grandfathers tags were found on Guadalcanal.
It’s really too bad, since he died last year.
My son back in the 80’s spent time on the mission field in Papua-New Guinea and went to a remote village and got to talk to one of the elders who recalls killing and eating little yellow men during the war.
>>>Quite possibly some of these Japanese are retired from Nissan, Mitsubishi, Honda, etc. and are living quiet and comfortable in their senior years.
Better odds if they weren’t machine-gunned by Aussie or US forces, then they would have been left to rot when the island hopping campaign cut them off from resupply or evacuation. Starvation, malaria, spiders, snakes, and headhunters means few survived to go home.
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