Still an unpaid volunteer, Abrams is now paid for expenses. At any given time she may be working on 20 cases for service members, whose remains are at the Central Identification Laboratory in Honolulu awaiting identification. S.C. She was also asked to find surviving relatives of a B-24 crew member recovered in Germany, several Americans repatriated by the North Koreans and two Marines found in Vietnam. Painfully slowly, lost service members are being found. Last year a hiker found a B-24 and 10 crewmembers in a ravine in France s Eiffel Mountains.
Metal detectors turn up helmets and skeletons from the Battle of the Bulge.
Negotiations with the Vietnamese and North Koreans yield remains. Ala. In his case, Abrams went one step further when she learned that the P-47 s nose art was Scrumptious Betty. Abrams opened the file again and researched the pilot s yearbook, but didn t find anything. Then I found a news clipping in a Portland newspaper that reported him missing-in action, Abrams said. In the article, the father had indicated that his son had had a girlfriend named Betty he had met in training in Idaho.