The Los Angeles Times profiles an effort by servicemembers and an anthropologist to excavate the site of an April 9, 1944, crash of a B-24D Liberator in Mojave, Calif.—a crash that claimed all 10 Army Air Forces crew members. Amateur archeologists uncovered the first remains from the site in 2005. The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, wrapped up its investigation last month, sending the commingled remains to their lab for the identification process.
Air Force Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich assumed command of U.S. European Command on July 1, taking over the key assignment as the U.S. and its allies contend with a resurgent Russia and a grinding war in Ukraine.
