World War II Airman Found Frozen in Glacier

[emad]

- It was a plane crash back in 1942 that wasn't discovered until 1947. Now, hikers made a frozen discovery in connection with a World War II plane crash.

Hikers found the frozen body of an airman while scaling Mount Mendel Glacier in the Kings Canyon National Park. Now, the military is working to find out who this airman is and whether he was ever reported missing.

It's believed the airman has been frozen in the glacier for decades until a pair of climbers got much more than ever imagined on a hike.

Two glacier climbers, 13,000 feet above the national park floor on Mount Mendel, made the incredible discovery.

http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=local&id=3549625

[bleedingheart]

1. Imagine being the sibling or perhaps the sweetheart of this fellow

....and if his body is perfectly preserved...seeing his face as it was 60+ years ago....

That would be really really unbelievable and probably hard to comprehend...

[Jack from Charlotte]

10. To me this is another example of the silliness of that MIA's are still....

alive" talk that was so rampant in the 80's and early 90's. In wartime.... people go missing. Sometimes guys are hit on the head with a shell and the only thing left of them is...... spray. If a guy can be missing in this country for 60 some years..... why can't guys be missing in VN forever. A few years ago a WWII plane was found in the mountains in Washington with about 6 dead GI's inside.

Again.... what's sinister about 1,600 guys still "missing" in VN out of the many million that were sent there?

[ieoeja]

16. MIA = full pay; KIA = deceased benefits

It is kind of silly to claim that 1,600 bodies couldn't have disappeared in a jungle. Whole cities have been lost in these jungles.

On top of that an American Vietnam vet once told me that when he saw a married friend disintegrated, he reported the man MIA instead of KIA so the spouse would continue receiving the man's pay.

[FreedomAngel82]

15. Oh wow!

Could that happen? Or would he be dead? And imagine being him and if that happens and all the changes... amazing.

[bleedingheart]

20. oh he would be dead....but if the body was preserved really well

he might look as he had years ago...

I know I would find that really odd....

[Zuni]

2. wow....that is mind boggling

[Nihil]

3. Follow up: Body now removed from glacier

http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=local&id=3554103

(Still not identified)

[Feron]

4. It's Captain America..

Seriously I'm glad they found him so that his family can have closure.

[shadowknows69]

12. Thank you

For me not being the only adult to have a comic book reference leap into their mind.

[Giant Robot]

18. I'm just angry I didn't think of it!!! GRRRRR n/t

[Marr]

13. That's what I was thinking, too. :)

I wonder if there were any Alien/Nazi missile parts scattered about?

[bryant69]

19. Yeah. Too bad Sub-Mariner wasn't around to toss him away from eskimos

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[formercia]

5. I wonder if he will get per diem.

It's in a national park, so they will probably disqualify it based on the government furnished quarters exclusion.

[Solly Mack]

7. ROFLMAO

that's funny...very funny

[formercia]

9. The sad part is

it really happened. Some of our people were rolled up by the Cubans. They PNG'd the case officer, but the tech didn't have diplomatic immunity, so he spent 20 years in a Cuban jail. When he was released, one of the back pay Items requested was per diem but Admin overruled it and said he wasn't entitled since he had govt furnished quarters.

[Solly Mack]

11. oh damn

not surprised though - to find it has happened

[mopinko]

6. there will be more of this

don't you think? lots of stuff is in those glaciers, and they sure are melting. maybe they will find cokie robert's dad.

[LostinVA]

8. This Admin will probably thaw him and send him to Iraq

You KNOW they would if they could.

Rest in Peace, Airman.

[TK421]

14. Gives a whole new meaning to Cold Case

[Jara sang]

17. Are they going to try and figure out what nomadic tribe he was from?

Boy, archaeologist are going to have a field day with this. They better make room in a wing of the Museum of Natural History for his display case.

[Beaverhausen]

21. Dang...I just visited Kings Canyon in August

See...I can prove it