Personal effects return home after 72 years | News | djournal.com

Nov 06, 2024

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Recently Janet Farr held in her hands the personal effects of an uncle she never knew that were buried in the Alaskan tundra November of 1952. As she laid out the bill fold with his picture and the money that was inside as well as the air mail stamps and a few other things she was still marveling at how well preserved they were,

in spite of an aircraft explosion and years of snow and ice.

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