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The remains of the 9-man crew of a bomber that disappeared in World War Two have been identified. The Plane disappeared after making a bombing run on Japanese ships in the Bismarck Sea. The crash site was located on Papua New Guinea.

The crash site was found in 2002 after a local government official contacted a team of military investigators exploring an unrelated crash site. The official turned over aircraft data plates, human remains and identification tags.

DNA testing and dental records were used to identify the remains of the nine members of the US Army Air Corps.

1st Lt. Arthur Armacost III, of Cincinnati, Ohio
2nd Lt. Charles Feucht, of Reynoldsburg, Ohio
1st Lt. William Hafner, of Norfolk, Virginia
2nd Lt. David Eppright, of Warrensburg, Missouri
2nd Lt. Charles Cisneros, of San Antonio, Texas
Technical Sgt. Alfred Hill, of Temple, Oklahoma
Technical Sgt. James Lascelles, of New York City
Staff Sgt. William Cameron, of Los Angeles, California
Staff Sgt. Wilburn Rozzell, of Duncan, Oklahoma

May you rest in peace.

Armacost, Cameron, Hafner and Lascelles were to be buried Wednesday at Arlington National Cemetery, as were the group remains that couldn't be matched specifically to any missing airman. Individual remains of the other five have been buried elsewhere.