Hopeful of finding remains


BERUAS: Experts are confident that they can excavate and return the remains of the three crew members of the downed World War II Douglas Dakota C-47B aircraft that crashed at the Bubu Forest Reserve here in 1945.

Numerous materials from the crash site have been found and would be analysed, said the US Defence POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)’s archaeologist Dr Owen O’Leary.

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