Continued, In the immediate aftermath of the fighting on Tarawa, - TopicsExpress



          

Continued, In the immediate aftermath of the fighting on Tarawa, U.S. service members who died were buried in a number of battlefield cemeteries. During World War II, U.S. Navy Combat Engineers, “SeaBees,” significantly restructure the landscape to convert the island for use by the U.S. service members. In 1946 when U.S. Army Graves Registration Service personnel attempted to locate all of the battlefield interments, many of the burials could not be located. In 2012 Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) teams conducted excavation operations in the Republic of Kiribati and discovered human remains and equipment that appeared to be those of American servicemen from US Navy Hospital Corpsmen in World War II (Pacific War) II. To identify the remains, scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL) used circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools such as dental comparisons and radiographs, which matched Winkley’s records.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 19:26:46 +0000

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