The field activities conducted by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) between November 8 and December 13 recovered evidences that could be linked to the lost airmen from World War-II, a communiqu from the Kolkata-based US Consulate General office said.
The team investigated a site where a B-24J bomber aircraft possibly crashed in January 1944. The evidences that the team recovered will be reviewed by the Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI) in cooperation with DPAA, the communiqu said.
DPAA is entrusted with the responsibility of providing all possible information about missing US personnel to their families and the nation.