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Team works to identify WWII soldier who died in Alaskan plane crash

KCAW | By Hope McKenney
Published August 11, 2026 at 3:32 AM CDT

In Sitka, Alaska, a Defense Department team has exhumed the remains of an unidentified WWII soldier, in hopes of identification and reburial in a place of his family's choosing.

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Hope McKenney