World IN BRIEF / CHINA : U.S. Given Suspected Remains of ’44 Fliers
From Times Wire Reports
U.S. officials in China took possession of a case of human remains believed to be those of two crew members of an American B-24 bomber that crashed in southern China in 1944 during World War II. The remains were handed over in Guilin and then flown to Hawaii for examination, Pentagon spokesman Larry Greer said. The remains were found this summer during a U.S.-China recovery operation on Maoer mountain in Guangxi province.
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