Rajnath Singh Hands over World War-Era US Army Uniform, Plane Parts Found in Assam to Austin
News 18Union minister of defence Rajnath Singh symbolically handed over some items recovered in Assam to his American counterpart Lloyd Austin. There are remains of approximately 400 US air force personnel who went missing in India during World War II. The items handed over included parts of parachute, uniform and airplane of the US forces from the World War II-era as part of the US Defence Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Agency Mission. pic.twitter.com/6jumI0aNYF— Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III November 10, 2023 Lloyd Austin and US secretary of state Antony Blinken held the 2+2 India-US ministerial dialogues with Union external affairs minister S Jaishankar and Rajnath Singh in New Delhi on Friday. According to a 2021 press release, the Gandhinagar-based National Forensic Sciences University has tied up with US’s Department of Defense to recover and identify the remains of these missing air force personnel.
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