KC-135 Crew Recovers Remains From Republic Of Palau
A drama unfolded in the skies above the western Pacific island
nation of Palau on September 1, 1944, as intense fighting between
American and Japanese forces was getting under way. During a raid,
comrades of the US Army Air Forces looked on helplessly as the crew
of a B-24 Liberator bomber, the "Babes in Arms," was brought down
by anti-aircraft fire. Three of the crew reportedly bailed out, one
without a parachute, before the bomber dove headlong into the ocean
never to be found -- or so it was thought back then.