Tribune News Service

New Delhi, April 13

Remains of US soldiers who died during the WW-II in Arunachal Pradesh were handed over to a US delegation in Delhi in the presence of US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter today.A US embassy statement said these were possibly the remains of US service members recovered by the Defense POW/MIA (Prisoners of War/ Missing in Action) Accounting Agency (DPAA).One set of remains was recovered in Arunachal Pradesh between September 12 and November 17, 2015. A second set of remains was unilaterally turned over to the DPAA by a third party from the same region.The remains recovered late last year are possibly associated with a B-24 crash on January 25, 1944, where a crew of eight personnel assigned to the 14th Air Force, 308th Bomb Group, were lost during a routine mission from Kunming, China to Chabua, India. The remains that were handed over to the DPAA are possibly related to a C-109 that crashed on July 17, 1945, travelling from Jorhat, India, to Hsinching, China, with a four-man Army Air Force crew.