This is a section of a wooden cross found by a Recovery Team from the U.S. Army Central Identification Laboratory Hawaii while performing an excavation on Kiska Islandl, Alaska on August 4, 2003. The team is working to recover the remains of Missing In A

Description:

1943: U.S. soldiers finally take Kiska Island in August and begin to look for their dead. A search party finds the remains of Keller's plane nearly 3,000 feet high on the island's volcano. A team later buries the crewmen in a common grave, marked by a cross with a hand-carved inscription. "SEVEN U.S.N. AIRMEN," it reads.

Display date:

08/04/2003

Location:

Hawaiʻi

Collections:

Digital Public Library of America

Contributors:

Denver Public Library

Content partner:

Denver Public Library

Availability:

Not specified