Hikers in Kings Canyon National Park in California discovered a body buried in ice in one of the park’s most inaccessible areas, and investigators believe the body could be the remains of a World War II Army Air Forces airman killed on a training flight that crashed in the Sierra Nevada in 1942, the Los Angeles Times reports. An investigator from DOD’s Joint POW-MIA Accounting Command has flown to California to join in efforts to extract the body from 13,710-foot high Mount Mandel. Wreckage from the crash of an Army Air Forces AT-7 was discovered in the same area in 1947, five years after the aircraft was reported missing.
The last remaining T-1 Jayhawk at JBSA-Randolph, Texas, took its final flight to the "Boneyard" at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., on July 15. The 99th Flying Training Squadron will train pilots using T-6 and simulator until it gets T-7 Red Hawk in fiscal 2026.