In the winter 2010-2011, Emil Wasilewski's nephew Wally Wade received a strange phone call from a man at Fort Knox saying they thought they had found the remains of his uncle. He blew it off thinking it was a scam, but his older brother Wade got the same message and took a DNA swab. In the fall of 2011, they got news that the DNA was a match.
In 1991, a German digging in the area found the dog tags of one of the crew members. German law prohibited more searching on the site and it wasn't until 2007 that a POW/MIA group investigated the mass burial site.
A few years ago, 117 bone and tooth samples were submitted to the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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