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WWII vet, killed, missing, to be honored Saturday

ALTON — It will be a day of many emotions for Paul Bensman’s family.

Family members from across the country will convene upon Alton’s Marquette Catholic High School gymnasium Saturday for a flag presentation honoring Bensman, whose plane went down on a Pacific island in September 1944. The BentProp Project, a team of volunteers dedicated to…

Getting them home – search continues for WW2 soldiers MIA on Palau

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Seventy years after the end of World War Two, the search for US servicemen missing in action on Palau is still going on.

The latest remains to be recovered by a team from the non-government organisation known as the Bentprop Project have left the island for further analysis.

But the search is far from over, and…

In the third part of this new series, we present the BentProp Project, a California- based effort that has been searching for the long-lost bodies of tens of thousands of fallen American soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen who never came home from World War II, their remains lost in dense jungles, in hidden caves, in downed warplanes under several fathoms of seawater, and in other nearly inaccessible areas seldom seen by humans.

In the remote island of Palau -- 1,000 miles south of Guam -- the bloody 1944 Battle of Peleliu saw 73 missing in action from the Marines alone.

Now documentarians Jennifer Powers and Dan O'Brien are following up with a companion coffee-table book called Lost in Palau to raise awareness of the BentProp work. They're attempting to collect $36,000 to fund the book through Kickstarter.com.