Military prepares to exhume remains of unidentified soldier…

Aircraft Alaska Today in Alaska: Officials with the U.S. Department of Defense's DPAA are preparing to exhume the remains of an unidentified WWII soldier known as "X-3" buried at Sitka National Cemetery, believed to be Second Lt. Eugene Christensen of the U.S. Army Air Forces, who died in a 1942 C-53 aircraft crash near Cold Bay during the Aleutian Islands Campaign. Sixteen soldiers were aboard the plane when it went down; a local trapper recovered six sets of remains that washed ashore and buried them near his cabin before the military relocated them to Fort Randall Post Cemetery. Five of the six were later identified, with X-3 being the remaining unknown soldier now slated for disinterment and DNA identification.