The remains of an airmen listed as missing in action from World War II have been identified as those of TSgt. Walter A. McClellan, according to a DOD POW/Missing Personnel Office April 22 release. McClellan was a gunner on a B-17 struck by enemy fighters on an April 17, 1945, mission to bomb a rail depot in Dresden, Germany. After the war, US search team could no longer search the Soviet-controlled area, so the US deemed the B-17 crew remains non-recoverable. Reports from German citizens in 1956 and 2007 led to the 2008 exhumation of a grave in Burkhardswalde, where a recovery team found human remains and artifacts that scientists determined were those of McClellan. Church records revealed he had parachuted over Biensdorf, but German SS forces captured and killed him near Burkhardswalde.
Meink: Air Force Has Five More E-7s Under Contract
April 30, 2026
The Air Force has contracts in place for five additional E-7A Wedgetail airborne battle management aircraft, Secretary Troy Meink told lawmakers April 30. Meink also said the Department of the Air Force wants to work with Congress to find ways to continue to fund the E-7 next year and beyond,…