A Sortie Back Into Year 1943

• During WW-II, hundreds of Allied planes carrying essential supplies to besieged Chinese forces crashed in the dangerous air corridor connecting Assam and Kunming
  
• The remains of over 400 missing US airmen and wreckage of several planes are believed to lie in the Northeast
  
• The US government, pressed by relatives of missing airmen, has now got permission from the Indian government to search this restricted area for remains
  
• The joint Indo-US search expedition, aided by local tribals, will be launched in August and will continue till December this year.

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