Chinesischen und amerikanischen Beamten Hände schütteln während einer Zeremonie, die Rückkehr der WWII US-Flieger zu Ehren bleibt bei jianchuan Museum in Chengdu City, Sout
Chinese and American officials shake hands during a ceremony to honor the return of WWII U.S. airman remains at Jianchuan Museum in Chengdu city, southwest China's Sichuan province, 22 October 2015. China on Thursday (22 October 2015) handed over the remains of US airmen who supported the Chinese Army during World War II to representatives from the United States. During the handover ceremony at Chengdu's Jianchuan Museum in the southwest province of Sichuan, Raymond Greene, consul general of the American Consulate General at Chengdu, covered the casket with an American flag. "US-Chinese cooperation during World War II was crucial to the global efforts to defeat fascism, " he said. The remains are believed to belong to airmen tasked with transporting goods to southwest China along the famous WWII air route "the Hump." According to official files, a US Army C-87 transport plane with five US pilots went missing in 1943 on its return route from Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province. The remains will be taken back to the US for DNA tests to see if they are the crew of this ill-fated flight, Greene said. Villagers happened upon the airplane in 1993 at the top of a mountain in Bomi Country, Tibet Autonomous Region. At that time, without the resources to move the plane, only the remains were brought down from the glacier. It was not until August 2015 that the wreckage and more remains were removed to lower ground.
