FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 24, 2025 – The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), in partnership with Project Recover and other experts in the field, has announced that they have positively identified the remains of Staff Sergeant Eugene J. Darrigan who had been Missing In Action since World War II. The 26-year-old from Wappinger Falls, NY served as radio operator in a B-24 bomber named Heaven Can Wait that was shot down over a remote bay in Papua New Guinea on March 11, 1944. In 2017 the missing bomber was located underwater at a depth of over 200 feet by the partnership Project Recover, leading to a 2023 mission by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency to recover crew remains from the …
Project Recover Welcomes New Advisory Council Members
Rear Admiral Frank Thorp IV, USN (Ret), Bridget Guerrero CBCP, and Stacy McCarthy PCC bring their leadership expertise and passion to help return American service members missing in action Project Recover, a global nonprofit dedicated to repatriating American service members missing in action and providing answers and closure to MIA Gold Star Families, is proud to announce the appointment of three distinguished leaders to its Advisory Council. Rear Admiral Frank Thorp IV, USN (Ret); Bridget Guerrero, Director, Security Strategy and Resilience at Viasat; and Stacy McCarthy, Partner, Aesara Partners. “We are thrilled to welcome Frank, Bridget, and Stacy to our Council,” said Derek Abbey, President & CEO of Project Recover. “Their robust backgrounds and diverse professional experience are valuable additions …
Project Recover Announces New Mission: Locate US Air Force B-52 and Aircrew Gone Missing Offshore Texas Coast in 1968
“Rog 88” was the pilot’s abbreviated, almost casual response to the duty controller’s request for a radio check. On hearing that standard radio-communications exchange over the intercom of his remote radar bomb scoring (RBS) site on the Texas shoreline, the young radar operator broke lock on the massive B-52 bomber he’d been tracking and repositioned the antenna atop his trailer 140° to the left. Satisfied the pencil beam of his radar was trained on the bomb run “front door” 70 miles away to the northeast, he left his trailer for a ten-minute break before MEAL 88 would return through that imaginary point in space at 800 feet above the water and 350 knots indicated airspeed for the aircrew’s third and …
