Remains from 2 WWII crews repatriated from India

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Channel: Stars and Stripes · 2016 · News & Politics

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Video by Tara Copp/Stars and Stripes. 
In a full-honors ceremony Wednesday, April 13, 2016, at New Delhi’s airport, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and a delegation of Indian and U.S. Defense Department officials looked on as bone fragments recovered from two separate WWII crash sites were carefully carried by U.S. Marines in a ceremonial box and placed in a transfer case. The remains belonged to crews from the B-24 Liberator Hot as Hell (1944) and a C-109 Liberator tanker (1945).
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