Airman found frozen in mountains arrives at military lab

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HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii - The well-preserved remains of a World War II airman found frozen in the Sierra Nevada arrived at a military laboratory for identification.

"The body is in very good condition after 63 years. The skin is mummified and the bones are very well preserved," Paul Emanovsky, an anthropologist with the Joint POW-MIA Accounting Command, said Monday. "Whether an identification can be made quickly, or if it takes awhile, depends on the availability of medical records."

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Interesting discovery, Advance. Finds like this are always exciting and a nice reminder that there is much of history that is yet to be discovered/uncovered.

Hopefully, after the identification process is complete, the U.S. will be able to give this soldier's family some closure and his full military honors burial.