Digging out the history! Indian Army recover wreckages of vintage US Aircraft from WW II in Arunachal Pradesh

Itaganar, April 5: The past history has a lot in store for a rightful lesson to the future. Digging out the past and in a way evoking the dreadful World War, the Indian Army in a surprising incident, recovered wreckage of a vintage US Air Force aircraft of WW II in Roing district of Arunachal Pradesh.

 

The Indian Army comprising of 12-member patrol team of the Indian Army along with a police official recovered the wreckage on March 30. The patrol team located the aircraft debris covered by thick undergrowth and buried under five feet of snow.

Based on the information received from the local trekkers of Lower Dibang district, through the police, a special patrol team was sent to locate the wreckage. It was located in a remote location at a distance of 30km from Roing. The patrol moved cross-country for 30 km in thick jungles and snow-covered areas for eight days to trace out the wreckage.

The region has seldom been ventured by anyone in the past and is even obscured from the air due to thick foliage. The discovery of the vintage aircraft and other warlike stores will definitely lead to the revelation of some historical inputs.

In July last year, excavated remains of soldiers, including fragments of bones, and artifacts of a US Air Force B-24 bomber and a C-109 aircraft that had crashed in present-day Arunachal Pradesh during the World War II were sent off to the US.