Department of Defense officials may have found the remains of U.S. servicemen missing since their aircraft crashed in the Himalayas during World War II.
(FOX)- U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) visited two sites in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh in the search for remains, a DPAA spokesman told FoxNews.com.
Aircraft carrying the still-unaccounted-for airmen are believed to have crashed in the remote region.
The team’s goal was to find out if the reported sites can be correlated to known crash sites involving missing U.S. servicemen, the Embassy in India said, in a statement.
Officials found the wreckage of a B-24 Liberator at one of the sites.
During discussions with local residents, the DPAA team was presented with human remains, which a witness had recovered near the wreckage of the crashed aircraft.
After arriving at the site, additional human remains, believed to be associated with missing US service members, were found.
(DoD photo by U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Christopher Cantu via Fox News)