The Eagle-Eyed phantom picked up this during the week:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-17/service-held-for-rediscovered-wwii-diggers/3955380
| QUOTE | Service held for rediscovered WWII diggers
Updated April 17, 2012 13:45:54
A memorial service has been held in Sydney for two World War II soldiers whose identities remained a mystery for nearly 70 years.
Lieutenant Scobbell McFerran-Rogers and Private John Whitworth were members of the Z Special Unit, a special forces unit made up of allied soldiers.
The pair died in June 1945 while on a mission to rescue two United States airmen whose plane went down in the Netherlands East Indies, now Indonesia.
The body of a Timorese interpreter named Roestan who worked with the unit has also been identified.
They were buried in unmarked graves at the Bomana War Cemetery at Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea.
The men were identified after an investigation by the Australian Army's Unrecovered War Casualties team.
Among those at today's service was Henry Fawkes, who was in the Z unit and was on the mission with the men.
"The plane came over at quarter to nine and by the time it landed it was nine o'clock before they picked us up," he said.
"But unfortunately we'd lost three, so only eight of us got out." |
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