TUCSON, Ariz. — It's a powerful story surrounding the ongoing effort to bring soldiers home.

According to the latest reports, there are approximately 82,000 U.S. service members who remain unaccounted for from conflicts dating back to World War II.

The U.S. Department of Defense estimates that about 38,000 of those missing are recoverable.

Lt. Col. Rich Ingleby, a professor of military science, and Army ROTC cadets Carson Criswell and brothers Jonathan Ellwanger and Zach Ellwanger recently returned from a month in southwestern Poland, where they worked alongside an archeological crew to carefully excavate a B-17G “Flying Fortress” bomber that crashed during the final months of World War II.

“It went down with seven of its crew members, seven of its ten crew members,” said Ingleby. “The

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