Final Search For American

Dead

SEARCH teams of the American Graves Registration Service have now ar rived in New Guinea and Papua to undertake work that is expected to close those Territories to anv further searching for unidentified American dead.

In the past two years these searches have been carried on on an individual basis —the men engaged in them going out to inquire only in regions where plane crashes or other casualties were known to have occurred. The teams which are now in the Territories will cover the whoip of the area as thoroughly as nossible. They will travel on foot, and will make either direct interrogation of natives on the soot, or will have representatives of outlying villages brought to them in central places This system has proved very successful in Dutch New Guinea and other similar areas.

Teams will be operating during the next few months in Sepik River Valley area (out of Madang) and north and south of Lae (out of Lae), and the Papuan Territory will be worked from Port Moresby. The present ©Derations will be carried out bv a small number of personnel, all of whom are Americans.

Anv person desirous of giving informa tion to the search teams, which might lead to the identification of unknown dead, should communicate with the Officer in Charge, American Graves Reg istration Service, c/o The Australian War Graves Commission, in Lae, or in Port Moresby.