It was 59 years ago this week when an airliner took off from what’s now JBLM and headed north for Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska. En route, somewhere off the coast of Southeast Alaska, something went wrong. The four-engine propeller plane, operated by Northwest Airlines, disappeared and was never found.
Greg Barrowman lives on a small acreage not far from Tahoma National Cemetery. On a drizzly day earlier this spring, he met up with aviation and military history enthusiasts Lee Corbin and Shawn Murphy – along with a certain historian from KIRO Newsradio. The goal was to find out what might be possible in terms of creating a
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