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Tonja Anderson-Dell lives in Tampa, Florida, but a good part of her time and attention is focused thousands of miles away -- on an Alaska glacier. Like dozens of family members of service members killed in a 1952 plane crash on Colony Glacier she is still awaiting word on the identification of her grandfather's remains.
In 1952, Isaac Anderson was a 21-year-old Air Force airman on his way to a duty station in Korea when the C-124 Globemaster II he was in crashed into a mountain just above Colony Glacier, about 50 miles east of Anchorage, killing all 52 men on board. His son, Anderson-Dell's father, was an 18-month-old baby when Anderson died.
Anderson-Dell runs a Facebook group for families of the airmen killed in the crash. She has attended funeral services for many of the 17 service members whose remains or partial remains have been identified. She has spent hours on the phone, talking about how the crash has affected the families left behind. She traveled to the crash site last June to see for herself the recovery efforts of the plane, personal effects and remains of its 52 occupants
Glacier wreckage linked to 1952 Alaska plane crash that killed 52
It's a circle jerk.
In 1952, Isaac Anderson was a 21-year-old Air Force airman on his way to a duty station in Korea when the C-124 Globemaster II he was in crashed into a mountain just above Colony Glacier, about 50 miles east of Anchorage, killing all 52 men on board. His son, Anderson-Dell's father, was an 18-month-old baby when Anderson died.
Anderson-Dell runs a Facebook group for families of the airmen killed in the crash. She has attended funeral services for many of the 17 service members whose remains or partial remains have been identified. She has spent hours on the phone, talking about how the crash has affected the families left behind. She traveled to the crash site last June to see for herself the recovery efforts of the plane, personal effects and remains of its 52 occupants
Glacier wreckage linked to 1952 Alaska plane crash that killed 52
It's a circle jerk.
