High-tech legwork IDs lost Marines
A private group using technology and old records has found the remains of 139 Marines killed during the World War II Battle of Tarawa. At least 23 of the Marines came from Pennsylvania, and at least seven from Allegheny County, according to Mark Noah, spokesman for History Flight of Marathon, Fla. Although verification will depend upon the U.S. government's exhuming and identifying the remains at its forensics lab in Hawaii, Noah said Monday his organization is confident it has identified the people buried in eight mass graves by using a combination of Marine burial maps, ground-penetrating radar and interviews with the island's residents.
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