Photo by Senior Airman Johnathon Wines | Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson | 06.17.2021
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Sonny Cooper, a UH-60 Black Hawk crew chief assigned to the Alaska Army National Guard, prepares to usher passengers onto a helicopter at Colony Glacier, Alaska, June 17, 2021. Operation Colony Glacier is an effort to recover the remains of service members and wreckage from a C-124 aircraft that crash landed in November 1952 with 52 military members on board. The wreckage......
Photo by Senior Airman Johnathon Wines | Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson | 06.17.2021
An Alaska Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter moves a container at Colony Glacier, Alaska, June 17, 2021. Operation Colony Glacier is an effort to recover the remains of service members and wreckage from a C-124 aircraft that crash landed in November 1952 with 52 military members on board. The containers are used to store and transport equipment, remains, and debris found by the......
Photo by Senior Airman Johnathon Wines | Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson | 06.17.2021
An Alaska Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter prepares to move a container at Colony Glacier, Alaska, June 17, 2021. Operation Colony Glacier is an effort to recover the remains of service members and wreckage from a C-124 aircraft that crash landed in November 1952 with 52 military members on board. The containers are used to store and transport equipment, remains, and debris......
Photo by Senior Airman Johnathon Wines | Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson | 06.17.2021
U.S. Army Sgt. Kyle Dallman, an Operation Colony Glacier recovery team member, communicates with the crew members of an inbound Alaska Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter at Colony Glacier, Alaska, June 17, 2021. Operation Colony Glacier is an effort to recover the remains of service members and wreckage from a C-124 aircraft that crash landed in November 1952 with 52 military......
Photo by Senior Airman Johnathon Wines | Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson | 06.17.2021
Members of the Operation Colony Glacier recovery team search for remains of fallen service members and wreckage from a C-124 aircraft that crash landed in November 1952 at Colony Glacier, Alaska, June 17, 2021. Operation Colony Glacier is an effort to recover the remains of service members and wreckage from the flight, which had 52 military members on board. The wreckage was discovered in 2012......
Photo by Senior Airman Johnathon Wines | Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson | 06.17.2021
(From left) Carlos Colon, an Armed Forces Medical Examination System medical legal investigator, U.S. Air Force Capt. Lyndi Minott, Operation Colony Glacier deputy planner assigned to Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations, and Katherine Grosso, an AFMES medical legal investigator, filter water in search of remains at Colony Glacier, Alaska, June 17, 2021. Operation Colony Glacier is an effort......
Photo by Senior Airman Johnathon Wines | Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson | 06.17.2021
U.S. Army Sgt. Kyle Dallman, left, and Sgt. Timothy Martin, Operation Colony Glacier recovery team members, examine an object they found at Colony Glacier, Alaska, June 17, 2021. Operation Colony Glacier is an effort to recover the remains of service members and wreckage from a C-124 aircraft that crash landed in November 1952 with 52 military members on board. The wreckage was discovered in......
Photo by Senior Airman Johnathon Wines | Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson | 06.17.2021
U.S. Air Force Capt. Lyndi Minott, Operation Colony Glacier deputy planner assigned to Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations, searches for remains of fallen service members at Colony Glacier, Alaska, June 17, 2021. Operation Colony Glacier is an effort to recover the remains of service members and wreckage from a C-124 aircraft that crash landed in November 1952 with 52 military members on......
