Celebrating Aviation: Project Recover

Project Recover & 'To What Remains'

To What Remains is a stirring, feature-length documentary from Imperative Entertainment, ABRAMORAMA, and directed by Christopher Woods, that follows the efforts of the non-profit Project Recover to repatriate some of the more than 80,000 Americans missing in action (MIAs) since World War II. The film incorporates the stories of several MIAs and their families to illustrate the process of researching, searching for, and finding the remains of those MIAs so they can finally be brought home. It includes the search for Lt R. R. Houle, commanding officer of Ensign George H. W. Bush’s TBM Avenger squadron, and also follows Tommy Doyle, son of SSgt Jimmie Doyle, as he dives on the crash site of his father’s plane more than six decades later. To What Remains is a powerful testament to how one person’s commitment to ‘do the right thing’ motivates an ever-growing number of people to do the same.

The presentation will feature another family member, Scott Althaus, who will introduce the film and give a presentation and take questions following the showing. In 2013, Althaus began researching his cousin-once-removed, 2nd Lt. Thomas Kelly, Jr., who had been MIA since 1944. In 2017, after turning his family’s research over to Project Recover, Althaus learned that they had located the site of Kelly’s B-24 Heaven Can Wait in Hansa Bay, Papua, New Guinea, and were presenting their findings to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, which is responsible for recovering, identifying, and repatriating remains. Scott Althaus has become a member of Project Recover himself.

Presented in combination with the special exhibits OceanXperience and Drop in the Ocean the Foundation is hosting at the Museum through April 27. Attendees will be able to experience both in the 4th building at no charge following the presentation.

Tickets are $20 each. 

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Air Force Museum Foundation

Celebrating Aviation: Project Recover is taking place at Air Force Museum Foundation, which is located at 1100 Spaatz Street in WPAFB. Air Force Museum Foundation - The Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc., raises funds and awareness in support of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.