B-24 crash site remains recovered over half a century later
First Lieutenant Robert King lost his life trying to get through some of the most dangerous flying weather on Earth. He was scheduled to come home after that mission—78 years later, now there’s a chance that he will.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
First Lieutenant Robert King was in command of a B-24 nicknamed the Flub Dub. The B-24 was a bomber but in this case he and his crew were flying not bombs, but cargo between India and China to support Chinese troops fighting the Japanese.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
First Lieutenant Robert King was in command of a B-24 nicknamed the Flub Dub. The B-24 was a bomber but in this case he and his crew were flying not bombs, but cargo between India and China to support Chinese troops fighting the Japanese.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
Clayton Kuhls drive to climb the most challenging mountains led him to India. The people he met there told him of crash sites throughout the mountains. He’s been working to recover remains from them ever since.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
View of the wreckage in India where the remains of Lieutenant Bob King and nine other servicemen rest on a mountainside more than two miles high.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
Identifying marker on wreckage.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
View of the wreckage in India where the remains of Lieutenant Bob King and nine other servicemen rest on a mountainside more than two miles high.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
Shidibi Mountain, site of the wreckage, shrouded in clouds.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
View of the wreckage in India where the remains of Lieutenant Bob King and nine other servicemen rest on a mountainside more than two miles high.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
View of the wreckage in India where the remains of Lieutenant Bob King and nine other servicemen rest on a mountainside more than two miles high.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
View of the wreckage in India where the remains of Lieutenant Bob King and nine other servicemen rest on a mountainside more than two miles high.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
View of the wreckage in India where the remains of Lieutenant Bob King and nine other servicemen rest on a mountainside more than two miles high.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
View of the wreckage in India where the remains of Lieutenant Bob King and nine other servicemen rest on a mountainside more than two miles high.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
View of the wreckage in India where the remains of Lieutenant Bob King and nine other servicemen rest on a mountainside more than two miles high.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
View of the wreckage in India where the remains of Lieutenant Bob King and nine other servicemen rest on a mountainside more than two miles high.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
View of the wreckage in India where the remains of Lieutenant Bob King and nine other servicemen rest on a mountainside more than two miles high.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
View of the wreckage in India where the remains of Lieutenant Bob King and nine other servicemen rest on a mountainside more than two miles high.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
View of the wreckage in India where the remains of Lieutenant Bob King and nine other servicemen rest on a mountainside more than two miles high.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
(l-r) Mate Miuli, Tapir, and Clayton Kuhls at the start of their trek to Cheppe.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
Mate Miuli, Tapir, and Clayton Kuhls before Cheppe.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
Sorting loads at the roadhead.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
Sorting loads at the roadhead.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
Shibidi Mountain high camp.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
The hanging bridge.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
Another shot of the hanging bridge.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
High on Shibidi Mountain.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
(l-r) Mountain guide with Tapir, and Clayton.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
Guides and porters with Clayton.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
Three generations of the Miuli family with Clayton Kuhls.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
Miuli family elders with Clayton and Tapir.MIA Recoveries, Inc.
(l-r) Mishmi villagers, Tapir, and Clayton.MIA Recoveries, Inc.