Archive for the ‘Military History’ Category
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 |
Monday, September 22, 2008 (Day 1)
I arrived in New Delhi on American Airlines Flight 292 from Chicago, completing the first leg of my journey to the recently discovered crashsite in Arunachal Pradesh, where my uncle and his seven crewmates were killed on January 25, 1944. I am the only member of my family to visit India in 65 years, my MIA (missing in action) uncle, US Army Air Force 1st Lt. Irwin Zaetz, having been the first one. A car from the hotel picked me up at the airport and took me to my hotel, in the downtown Karol Bagh district, which is a busy commercial area. (Later on, I learned that this area of New Delhi had been victimized by murderous jehadi terror bombings only a few days before.) Although the area is kind of poor, the room in the hotel is very nice – the Presidential Suite. On the way to the hotel, I saw a number of cows in the street – there was even a bull. I could have reached through the window of the car and touched its horns, it was so close. I also saw a rat cross the street ahead of us.
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Friday, December 19th, 2008 |
A minister of Indira Gandhi’s cabinet betrayed India’s “war objectives” to the Central Intelligence Agency in December 1971, causing an abrupt end to the Bangladesh war under vicious US arm twisting.
This is the highlight of the book CIA’s Eye on South Asia by journalist Anuj Dhar. Published by Delhi-based Manas Publications, which is facing government’s ire for coming out with a book on the R&AW, the book compiles declassified CIA records on India and her neighbours. It specifically spotlights what arguably has been India’s biggest spy scandal.
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Monday, November 10th, 2008 |
Clayton Kuhles of www.MIArecoveries.org just returned home from a 7-week MIA search expedition In NE India. Clayton say’s “This was probably the most successful and productive search expedition I’ve ever done. I reached 7 additional US aircraft wrecks during this expedition which began in mid-September. Among the MIA wrecks which were finally located was the very elusive B-24J #42-100184 (”Zoot Chute”) with the remains of 10 US personnel aboard. This aircraft was located at over 11,000 ft. elevation on a rugged mountain north of Damroh, crashed on 25 May 1944. The B-24J #42-73308 a.k.a. “Hot as Hell” was lost on 25 January 1944. I found “Hot as Hell” slightly to the SE on 07 December 2006.
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008 |
A joint-agency search continues for missing crew members following Monday’s crash of a B-52H Stratofortress bomber 25 miles off the northwest coast of Guam. Bodies of two of the six Airmen on board the aircraft have been recovered. Identities of the crew members are being withheld pending family notification.
On scene in a 900-square mile search area are crews with two U.S. Coast Guard vessels and the USS John McCain, an Arleigh Burke class destroyer.
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Monday, March 17th, 2008 |
The wreck of missing Royal Australian Navy cruiser HMAS Sydney II has been found. HMAS Sydney II was lost in November 1941 off Western Australia with its entire crew, following a fierce engagement with the German raider HSK Kormoran.
The search first focused on finding the German raider Kormoran which was located on 12 March approximately 112 nautical miles off Steep Point, Western Australia lying in 2,560 metres of water.
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008 |
Indian Air Force Helicopter reconnaissance sorties have been carried out over the crash site of the ill fated US Air Force B-24 #42-73308 (”Hot as Hell”). The plane had crashed in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in India on January 25, 1944. On 7 December 2006, a private American investigator, Mr. Clayton Kuhles discovered the crash site.
Since the discovery of the crash site, it has been a fight for Gary Zaetz whose uncle, 1st Lt. Irwin G. Zaetz of the U.S. Army Air Force was in the crash. last year American Government begun discussions with the Indian Government about the recovery of American Missing in Action (MIA) remains in India. These discussions continued at the meeting of the joint Indian-US Defense Policy Group (DPG) in January 2008.
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Saturday, December 15th, 2007 |
It has been over 60 year wait for the family members, including Gary Zaetz, of the ill fated World War Two plane B-24 J nicknamed “Hot As hell.” On January 25, 1944, B-24 J “Hot As Hell” with a compliment of 8 crew members took off from Kunming, China for a routine flight to Chabua, India. The plane never reached its destination. The crews were declared dead on November 20, 1944. On 7 December 2006, a private American investigator, Mr. Clayton discovered the crash site in East Siang district, with the assistance of Abor villagers.
B-24J 2342-73308 Identifcation Panel
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