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Bilateral, regional and global issues are likely to figure prominently when US Defence Secretary Robert M. Gates visits India 'early in 2008', a visiting American official said Friday.9:30 PM on December 14
Gary Zaetz Thursday, February 14, 2008
One aspect of the US-Indian defense relationship that is totally humanitarian in nature is cooperation to recover the remains of US military personnel who lost their lives in India during World War II. The families of these personnel hope that during his February visit Defense Secretary Gates and Indian Defense officials will solidify the January agreement on joint US-Indian recovery operations in India's Northeast, where the eight-member crew of the US aircraft "Hot as Hell" were killed in 1944. If a recovery operation is completed in 2008, that would mark a major milestone in US-Indian humanitarian cooperation. Gary Zaetz Nephew of Lt. Irwin Zaetz, navigator of the "Hot as Hell"
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