Malaysian Army successfully extracting the remains of American servicemen from the crash side of Douglas C47B
crashed on 27 November 1945 in Mountain Bubu in Perak.
The extraction mission codenamed "Ops Ganga" also involved Malaysian Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team and American
Department of Defense POW/ MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA).The crash side located nearly 20 kilometers from nearest town and only
accessible with 4 hours with 4WD vehicle. The crash side also about 560 meter wide.
And today the repatriation ceremony also attended by Malaysian Armed Forces honor guard and U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pN28UveIuk
Videos during Ops Ganga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEBMtaONwmw
Remain of C-47B still intact even after years of extreme condition of Malaysian tropical weather.
Repatriation Ceremony in Royal Malaysian Air Force base Subang.
Extraction using RMAF Nuri
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fPlKkXwQaU
Malaysia Armed Forces honor guard carrying one of the remains of American.
>>27800759
>>27800768
>>27800773
>>27800783
>>27800803
>>27800808
>>27800815
Welcome home.
>>27800724
OPPA GANGGA STYLE
>>27802204
My thoughts exactly, anon... my thoughts exactly.
Wtf was it doing in Malaysia in November of 1945?
Besides crashing
This is really fucking cool. Thanks Malaysia.
>>27800724
Yeah, I could see how they'd be sympathetic to relocating disappeared aircraft and personel.
>>27802277
Crashing.
>>27802277
Probably arming some jihadists to destabilize the zone, as usual.
>>27802380
I love u
>>27802277
Postwar Malaya Command operations, I assume. Malaya in 1945 was under a transitional military government mopping up what the Japs left behind before the territories were handed back to a civil Britbong government. No big surprise if an American military plane was shifting supplies around at the time.
>http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/c-47/43-16261.html
>>27800724
>The site was located as early as 1966 and 1985
>The first sighting was actually acknowledged by the Americans
>The second and third sighting were made by local villagers on foot
>The need to retrieve the bodies was put in the backburner in the first two cases
I have to wonder why it took them so long to mobilize a team.
>Brig General (Ret) Akbar Din adds:
>"We have [rediscovered] found a wreckage of a US Plane (Air Transport Command - U.S. Army Air Forces). Tail number 16261. I got pictures of the plane as attached. Please be fast or else the villages is going to cart it (with the remains of US Pilot) to the scrap dealers."
And this fucking thing too. I have to remind you that this is the same country where opportunistic shitheads have dredged up Japanese WW2 wrecks along the Malacca Straits for scrap.
well, i'm sure the relatives of those folks who died 70 years ago are pleased by this?
>>27802510
>Postwar Malaya Command operations.
I meant general Allied operations.
This has the stench of State Department diplomacy to boost relations with Malaysia all over it. I love it.
>>27800759
>>27800768
He must have been one tiny manlet
>>27802951
It's more the other way around. The US and Malaysia have known about the approximate location of the crash for a long time. It's up to the country where the crash site is to confirm the location of the crash and send people up there to excavate and retrieve the remains. America will only need to ready their planes to take them home.
Granted there is an intent by Malaysia to curry favor with America. It's timed so well as the TPPA is being finalized.
>>27802557
>http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015/08/25/Remains-to-be-excavated-70-years-after-crash-US-airmens-plane-went-down-in-Perak/
There are apparently next of kin who are still alive.
>>27803436
Can confirm. Lot of manlets here.
>>27803436
Try stuff a human body in extreme tropical weather for years.
>>27802510
That shithead was operated and protected by Indonesian Navy. Hey , even they using patrol boat threatened Malaysian fishermen if they don't 'pay protection money'
>>27802204
>>27802241
Gangga is the old name of ancient kingdom of Perak.
>>27800731
>Remain of C-47B still intact even after years of extreme condition of Malaysian tropical weather.
>piece of twisted wreckage
not sure what your definition of intact is brah
>>27804770
Then they have to be crazy to dredge there because some of the shipwrecks are well within Malaysia's maritime borders.
>>27806492
Welp. Indonesian Navy are known to robbing Vietnamese, Malaysian and other and blowing their boat claiming that fishermen 'illegally' entering Indonesia waters.
Here's example for 1972 and still going on article.
http://bibliotheca.limkitsiang.com/1972/08/29/call-on-all-malaysian-fishermen’s-associations-unions-co-operative-societies-and-other-organizations-to-prepare-memorandum/
>>27806622
Going to need more modern examples here.
>>27806622
>http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/21/us-china-indonesia-boats-idUSKBN0O613F20150521
They blew up 41 fishing boats as recent as this May, but they're claiming they entered their waters.
>>27804770
Actually, no. The primary suspect of the shipwreck plundering is Malaysia-based.
>http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/05/24/RM20mil-in-scrap-scooped-up-Firm-plundered-Tanjung-Tuan-wreck-over-past-two-years/
Scrap metal collection is big business here. At one point through the 2000s lowlifes would strip any removable piece of metal from transmission cables, street furniture, buildings and abandoned vehicles to sell because scrap dealers will take anything.
And WWII shipwrecks are still good sources for prime steel. These parasites don't give a fuck if there are still bones and personal belongings among the wreckage.
>>27809042
>Pops tells me a story on how he used to see an abandoned tank around where we live now
>He says it is relatively stout but tall, probably a Sherman
>Wants to restore it, but the Scrap Metal boom of the late '90s arrive, nothing left
I live in the Philippines, and I am near a former American/Jap airbase, now nowhere to be found.
>tfw I may find a still crated and cosmolined plane underground.
That small coffin is disturbing. I thought militaries used full sized coffins regardless of size of remains.
>>27810333
Used a big-sized coffin even after only small remain like a teeth or pieces of bones left? I don't think it was suitable having a pieces of tooth missing after violent rattling inside a big coffin.
Members of the Malaysian military guard render one final salute as they transfer the remains of a fallen service member back to the U.S. during a repatriation ceremony at Subang Air Base, Malaysia, Nov. 5, 2015. The ceremony, performed by both U.S and Malaysian military, was the first of its kind between the two countries. The remains were recovered through joint efforts between the U.S. and Malaysia during a 25-day mission from Aug. 16 through Sept. 9, 2015, at a crash site near Beruas village, Manjung district, Perak state, Malaysia. The yet-to-be-identified service member was part of a C-47 twin engine transport airplane that crashed in November of 1945. The aircraft carrying a three-man crew was flying from Singapore to Butterworth, Malaysia. The mission of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency is to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Brian J. Valencia
U.S. Marine Master Sgt. Jayson Franco renders a salute to U.S. Marine Capt. Gregory Lynch signifying the transfer of custody of the color guard during a repatriation ceremony at Subang Air Base, Malaysia, Nov. 5, 2015. The ceremony was executed to honor the return of one of our fallen service members who paid the ultimate sacrifice when his plane went down over Malaysia in 1945. Franco is assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency as the NCOIC of the Asian Pacific research section and Lynch is a DPAA team leader. The two were part of a 15-member joint U.S. military team, comprised of members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency as well service members from Untied States Pacific Command and Pacific Air Force Command, that was sent from Hawaii to honor the remains of a fallen service member who paid the ultimate sacrifice when his plane went down over Malaysia in 1945. The mission of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency is to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Brian J. Valencia)
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Patrick White carries the remains of a fallen service member during a repatriation ceremony at Subang Air Base, Malaysia, Nov. 5, 2015. The ceremony, performed by both U.S. and Malaysian military, honored the transfer of the service member from Malaysia to the U.S. The yet-to-be-identified service member was part of a C-47 twin engine transport airplane that crashed in November of 1945. The aircraft carrying a three-man crew was flying from Singapore to Butterworth, Malaysia. White was augmented to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency from the 747th Communications Squadron, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. The mission of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency is to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Brian J. Valencia)
A joint service team prepares to drape an American flag over a casket during a repatriation ceremony at Subang Air Base, Malaysia, Nov. 5, 2015. The 15-member team comprised of members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency as well service members from Untied States Army Pacific and Pacific Air Force Command, was sent from Hawaii to honor the remains of a fallen service member who paid the ultimate sacrifice when his plane went down over Malaysia in 1945. The ceremony signifies the transfer of the remains from Malaysia back to the U.S. where the service member can be ultimately identified and returned home. The ceremony marks the first of its kind between the two countries. The mission of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency is to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Brian J. Valencia)
A joint service team drapes an American flag over a casket during a repatriation ceremony at Subang Air Base, Malaysia, Nov. 5, 2015. The 15-member team comprised of members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency as well service members from Untied States Army Pacific and Pacific Air Force Command, was sent from Hawaii to honor the remains of a fallen service member who paid the ultimate sacrifice when his plane went down over Malaysia in 1945. The ceremony signifies the transfer of the remains from Malaysia back to the U.S. where the service member can be returned home. The ceremony marks the first of its kind between the two countries. The mission of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency is to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Brian J. Valencia)
A joint service repatriation team renders one final salute for a fallen service member being returned home during a repatriation ceremony at Subang Air Base, Malaysia, Nov. 5, 2015. The team will stay with the service member escorting him back to American soil. The 15-member team comprised of members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency as well service members from Untied States Army Pacific and Pacific Air Force Command, was sent from Hawaii to honor the remains of a fallen service member who paid the ultimate sacrifice when his plane went down over Malaysia in 1945. The ceremony signifies the transfer of the remains from Malaysia back to the U.S. where the service member can be returned home. The ceremony marks the first of its kind between the two countries. The mission of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency is to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Brian J. Valencia)
A joint service team renders one final salute for a fallen service member being returned home during a repatriation ceremony at Subang Air Base, Malaysia, Nov. 5, 2015. The team will stay with the service member, escorting him back to American soil. The 15-member team, comprised of members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency as well service members from Untied States Army Pacific and Pacific Air Force Command, was sent from Hawaii to honor the remains of a fallen service member who paid the ultimate sacrifice when his plane went down over Malaysia in 1945. The ceremony signifies the transfer of the remains from Malaysia back to the U.S. where the service member can be returned home. The ceremony marks the first of its kind between the two countries. The mission of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency is to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Brian J. Valencia)
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter watches as a joint carry team drapes an American flag over a transfer case of a recovered American World War II era aircrew during a repatriation ceremony in Subang, Malaysia, Nov. 5, 2015. (Photo by Senior Master Sgt. Adrian Cadiz)(Released)
From Malaysian Historical Group
"It disappered on a flight from Singapore to Butterworth on November 27, 1945. They searched for it until December 16, 1945 and gave up. The aircraft had three crew members who are shown as "Missing in Action" on the "Tablets of the Missing at Manila American Cemetary"
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>>27810728
http://mhg.mymalaya.com/bruas_dc3.htm
>>27810333
>>27810381
They only found one tooth and the crewmen's personal belongings.
I would imagine animals carting away body parts and long term soil movement (the plane crashed on the side of a hill) would had led to most of their bones being lost in the 70 years since the crash.
Aerial view of the crash side.
From Malaysian news channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_NITI0Eg9Y
>>27810333
>>27810381
>I thought militaries used full sized coffins regardless of size of remains.
To add it seems the USAF will still use standard full-sized coffins for ceremonial purposes if the remains are actually contained in a different container.
The remains are actually in this box >>27810663.
>>27802380
Call CNN in 70 years
>>27810235
The only thing hampering scrap plunderers is the terrain, especially if a wreck is deep in a forest reserve and crosses difficult terrain. But if development creeps up, it won't be long before it's stripped to nothing.
War relics left behind in more reachable area are pretty much fucked by the desperate poor or moneygrabbing developers.
>>27811861
>>27809042
Just a question. How much these metal worth today? I don't think it will get a high price.
>>27813691
There was a big boom for unregulated metal salvaging starting 10, 15 years back. I'm hadn't followed local metal prices, but it seemed to be profitable enough that even underground copper wires, manhole covers and monsoon drain grates were worth stealing by two-bit thieves at one point. The motivation is certainly there for a salvage company to hire an entire dredger to scoop up hunks of rusting steel from the bottom of the straits without authorization.
Never knew what all that scrap was to be used for or where they go (my bet is that they could be destined for China).
