Heaven Can Wait: One Local Family's Battle To Recover Loved One's Remains

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As the Memorial Day weekend approaches, KFBK Morning Show anchor Cristina Mendonsa highlights the journey of one local family in their quest to find the remains of their missing loved one decades after a B-24 bomber called "Heaven Can Wait" was shot down over Papua New Guinea in 1944. This story details the extensive search conducted by a team of elite Navy divers and archaeologists from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). The deep-water search for the bones of Heaven Can Wait’s crew took place in Hansa Bay in the Pacific Ocean. Project Recover located the bomber plane using data from a detailed four-year investigation by relatives of one member of the crew, 2nd Lt. Thomas V. Kelly Jr., the plane’s bombardier...


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