A group from New Orleans is headed to Europe to try and bring a US serviceman home.
“Prof. D. Ryan Gray will lead a group of students and archaeologists from UNO… to investigate a location believed to be associated with a World War II–era aircraft crash and the loss of an American pilot in central Italy,” The University of New Orleans announced in a news release.
Gray and the University of New Orleans Archaeological Research and Curation is partnering with the US Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
“They will join longtime colleague Prof. Harald Stadler, archaeologists affiliated with the University of Innsbruck and the Archäologische Forschungsgruppe Osttirol in Austria on this project.”
This marks the team’s first project in Italy and seventh recovery mission with the DPAA.
“The National WWII Museum in New Orleans is planning to send three members of the Museum’s Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy to the excavation in Italy.”
The museum is sending three people.
Tulane and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary will also be involved.
