Badge clue to pilot

(EXCERPT) Nick Papps 15mar04

AMERICAN soldiers have found the wings belonging to a pilot missing
for 62 years in country Victoria.

The metal badge was found by forensic experts searching north of Moe
for the remains of the World War II pilot.

Investigators have spent the past week excavating a site in heavy
bushland where United States Captain Joseph McLaughlin crashed his
Kittyhawk plane in March 1942.

Several parts from the plane have been found but an extensive
examination of the area has so far been unable to find the airman's
remains.

Soldiers from the US army's Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC)
launched the dig after receiving information on the crash site near
the township of Walhalla.

The crashed ai...

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