Our speaker today was our own Mark Crosswait, sharing the Missing In Action (MIA) story of his uncle Bob: Lt. Robert L. Crosswait. Lt. Crosswait was originally in the B-25 bomber squadron, later transferring to the P-38 Fighter Squadron. He was declared MIA in 1944, having been lost in or over New Guinea on a combat mission in the Southwest Pacific Area. Mark and family members were contacted by the MIA/POW Government Agency in 2012 for DNA should they recover Lt. Crosswait. Mark and his sister Connie found additional information/documents during a 2014 MIA/POW Conference they attended. Connie prepared a Memoir booklet, which they shared, including letters home to his parents and wife. Thank you Mark for sharing as we remember, honor and mourn the Americans who have died in the country’s
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