2007

Village where the American serviceman's remains are believed to be located. The exact location is to the right of the camera.

Looking back to the nearby road from the site where the American serviceman's remains are believed to be located.

A sample of local media coverage of the November 2007 search for Albert Haynes in the Hengyang Evening Newspaper, written by Mr. WANG.

Patrick LUCAS working with Mr. SU at the Hengyang television station to translate interviews with Haynes' family into Chinese so that they could be used in a series of television appeals to people in the Hengyang area for clues or information regarding the loss of Albert L. Haynes. HUANG Xiling videotapes in the background.

The Laiyan Pagoda (来雁塔) in Hengyang in November 2007, little changed from when GIs at the airbase there photographed it 60 year ago, which can be seen here.

The pond where the American serviceman's remains supposedly rest, with an elderly eyewitness, Mr. Peng, 84 years old, who was kind enough to recount everything he saw on that day 60 years before, and to personally take us to the site.

1st Lt. Albert Lloyd Haynes Jr. of the 26th Fighter Squadron, 51st Fighter Group, 14th Air Force. Lt. Albert (Pappy) Haynes was a P-40 (#43-11365) pilot who was shot down and lost on July 5th, 1944 over Hengyang, Hunan Province returning from escorting B-25s after taking off from Guilin. Albert's thoughts of flying came from his grandfather's side of the...

Life and times of Carl McClellan DeLeeuw (provided by his family) I was raised on an 8,000 foot elevation cattle and sheep ranch in southern Utah. My Dutch ancestors migrated there from Holland and my mother\'s from Scotland. While riding my horse across the hills I would look up and see the contrails of the airplanes and vowed to be...