Allamakee County Veterans Museum to host program on “Finding American MIAs in Underwater Environments” ...

The Allamakee County Veterans Museum will be offering another program to the public in the meeting room of its new museum in the former Vet’s Club building at 105 Allamakee Street, Waukon Thursday, December 15 at 6:30 p.m. Dr. Dan Davis, a marine archaeologist and professor in the Department of History at Luther College, will give a public talk entitled “Finding American MIAs in Underwater Environments,” and will detail his efforts to locate, document and recover American service members from submerged aircraft from World War II. The talk will focus on past and current projects, as well as the technologies being used to locate and identify human remains. Dr. Davis is a former U.S.

Navy deep sea diver with degrees in Nautical and Classical Archeology, and nearly 30 years of underwater fieldwork across the globe. He is pictured above in scuba gear near the center of the photo inspecting the fuselage of a B-24 Liberator bomber that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea during World War II.

There will be no admission charge and the new museum is wheel chair accessible. Museum winter hours include tours Saturdays from 9 a.m. until noon, and by appointment for groups of all kinds. Submitted image.