Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Airman in the Glacier Identified

Last fall I posted a couple of times on the body of a WWII era airman that was found preserved in a glacier in the central Sierra Nevadas. Today the LA Times reports that the Department of Defense's forensics lab in Hawaii has identified it as Leo Mustonen of Brainerd, Minnesota. Mustonen was 22 when was killed in this air crash in November, 1942. He will be buried near his parents in Minnesota.

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