Palawan and Cebu are islands in the Philippines.  On April 3, 1945 a B-25 left Palawan, flew 400 miles east and then crashed on Cebu.  66 years later the crew was interred in the soil of America.

Capt. Leonard E. Orcutt, Alameda, Calif., was buried on May 5 in Oakland, Calif;

Tech. Sgt. Louis H. Miller, Philadelphia, was buried on June 17 in Arlington National Cemetery;

Staff Sgt. George L. Winkler, Huntington, W.Va., was buried May 5 in Arlington National Cemetery;

2nd Lt. Harry L. Bedard, Minneapolis, will be buried on June 25 in Dayton, Minn.;

and 2nd Lt. Robert S. Emerson, Norway, Maine, will be buried July 9 in his hometown.

At this writing there are still 73,792 American servicemen missing from WWII.  In addition there are 7,999 missing from Korea, 1,689 missing from Vietnam and 127 missing from the Cold War.  Happily, none are missing from Grenada, Panama, Kuwait, Bosnia, Kosovo, or the current actions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya or Yemen with the single exception of Bowe Bergdahl.  America:

http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=14595

http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/summary_statistics/

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