Very fascinating, would make a great book.

9 Years Later, a Fatal Mystery Solved
Experts Trace Body Part From 1948 Plane Crash to Roanoke Seaman

By Michael E. Ruane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 16, 2008; Page B01

On a July day nine years ago, amid a bleak, rocky landscape near the foot of an ancient volcano in southeastern Alaska, two amateur plane crash detectives found Frank Van Zandt's left arm.

They didn't know that the pale remains, which resembled a delicate glove, belonged to the long-dead merchant seaman from Roanoke.

All they knew was that they were at the site of a plane crash almost 50 years before whose wreckage had been held in the grip of a glacier since 1948. They already had found scattered airplane debris, but nothing like this. ...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...081503300.html