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'I never let up on them': Missing Nebraska WWII soldier's relative pushes for disinterment

Summary by The Reader
On a hot afternoon in early July, handlers at Omaha’s Eppley Airfield lowered a flag-draped box from the hold of an Alaska Airlines jet. Police officers and military veterans saluted. Passengers, alerted to the flight’s special cargo, peered through the windows. The box held the remains of a soldier who died July 5, 1942, in the crash of an Army transport plane off Alaska’s southwestern coast. In the early days of World War II, the twin-motor C-…
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The Reader broke the news on Sunday, July 26, 2026.
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