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  • Everybody comes home ... even from 200 feet underwater

    04/23/2023 9:15:47 AM PDT · by Paal Gulli · 8 replies
    Stars and Stripes ^ | 22 Apr, 2023 | Michael E. Ruane
    Navy divers comb a Pacific graveyard, seeking lost World War II airmenBy Michael E. RuaneThe Washington Post • April 22, 2023 ... Earlier this month, a team of elite Navy divers and archaeologists from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) ended a five-week, deep-water search of Hansa Bay for the bones of Heaven Can Wait's crew.The project unfolded about 10 miles from an active, 6,000-foot volcano in one part of World War II's vast Pacific Ocean graveyard. It was the deepest underwater recovery mission for the DPAA, the government agency that seeks to account for service members missing in action...