Air Force identifies last of the service members killed in 1952 Alaska plane crash

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The last of the 52 service members killed in a 1952 transport plane crash in Alaska have been identified, closing a project begun 13 years ago when glacier movement first revealed remains of the missing.

“Reaching this point — identifying all 52 of our fallen service members — represents the highest fulfillment of our sacred duty to bring our fallen home,” said Air Force Col. Martha Sasnett, the commander of Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations.

The four-propeller C-124 Globemaster II was on a flight from McChord Air Force Base near Tacoma, Wash., to Elmendorf Air Force Base near Anchorage on Nov. 22, 1952, when it went down on Mount Gannett.

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