A team from the US Defence Department recently carried out a search operation in Arunachal Pradesh to look for American military personnel who went missing during World War II. It collected some forensic evidence which will be now flown to USA for further examination.
According to Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and the American Embassy in New Delhi, the US Department of Defence’s Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Agency (DPAA) conducted field activities in Arunachal Pradesh from November 1 to December 14 last year in search of US personnel who went missing in World War II, mostly as a result of air crashes.
The DPAA team recovered evidence that was subsequently examined by a Joint Forensic Review Committee and recommended the remains and material evidence of the US WW-II service members be transported to a DPAA laboratory for further analysis. In June 2017, DPAA personnel will escort the evidence from Kolkata to the US laboratory in Honolulu, Hawaii for analysis. “This was seventh such humanitarian mission conducted in India. Government of India has extended its full support to all these humanitarian missions,” MEA said in a statement.