A new and exciting documentary, which will soon be released in cinemas, deals with the efforts of a special project called "Project Recover", to find the remains of American fighters who fell in battle since World War II and whose burial place is unknown.
These are about 80,000 fighters who are defined as missing to this day, most of whom have drowned in the oceans, and the team uses the best technology available to identify their whereabouts and return their remains to the mourning families in the United States.
The special film follows the stubborn crew activity, which to date has been able to identify 50 sunken planes, not previously found, using 60 research and diving missions.
The trailer for the film shows how the crew members arrive with the information revealed to an American family and reveal to them that after decades of living in the shadow of the hard loss, they will bring for burial the father or brother who fell in battle.
The one who started the project on his own and led the process is Pat Skanon, who in 1993 began searching for the remains of American warriors who fell in World War II, in battles over the state of the Palau Islands.
Scannon spent diving around the island for two decades with a team he set up, acting as an underwater detective to find the remains of the warriors.
His search operation received a dramatic boost in 2012 when he met oceanographers Mark Mullin and Eric Trill, who studied ocean currents in the island nation on behalf of the U.S. Navy Research Office. The two, who were enthusiastic about the project, introduced to the search super-modern means such as underwater skimmers, sensitive sensors and state-of-the-art technology, which made it possible to detect unnatural anomalies in the seabed. This way the crew could examine in depth different reports and different testimonies from many marine sites in the area.
At the same time, businessman Dan Friedkin, who founded the U.S. Air Force Flight Heritage Fund and was enthusiastic about the project, joined the project.
Friedkin's funding put the project on its feet financially and solved the heavy funding questions of an operation of this kind.
Another advantage that Friedkin had was his extensive cinematic experience as a senior Hollywood producer.
Hollywood director and actor Chris Woods, an avid pilot himself and cinematic creator who served as an assistant director in blockbuster films, assisted and filmed the search missions as he created for the first time in his life an exciting documentary about families' exciting searches and responses to years of discovery.
The film itself was released in about three weeks.
