Recovery Efforts at a Second World War Aircraft Crash Site on the Island of Luzon, Republic of the Philippines

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Fulfilling a Nation’s Promise: The Search, Recovery, and Accounting Efforts of DPAA and Its Partners" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency’s (DPAA) mission is to provide the fullest possible accounting of missing service members from past conflicts. More than 81,000 service members remain missing, and almost 50% of those losses are attributed to America’s efforts during the Second World War in the Indo-Pacific region. Through close partnership with the DPAA and the National Museum of the Philippines, the Center for Recovery and Identification of the Missing (CRIM) at the University of Illinois at Chicago executes missions throughout the Philippines to aid in the recovery of this large portion of missing service members. This poster illustrates CRIM’s recovery process at a Second World War aircraft crash site in a remote location on the Island of Luzon in the Philippines. We illustrate how the project has evolved from historical research and site location to large scale excavation and digital landscape modelling. Due to the difficult nature of the site, the CRIM team draws on an arsenal of archaeological methods in the endeavor to provide a full accounting of the 11 service members who remain missing from this air loss.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)   •
• Fulfilling a Nation’s Promise: The Search, Recovery, and Accounting Efforts of DPAA and Its Partners

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Abstract Id(s): 37926.0