Mount Silverthrone News Today

SOUTHFIELD — After 71 years, Capt. William Nelson Coombs returned home to his final resting place, Acacia Park Cemetery in Southfield, Oct. 5.

Located on the legendary Pacific Ring of Fire, British Columbia sits at the convergence of the Cascadia subduction zone. Measuring 1,000 kilometres in length, it stretches from Vancouver Island all the way down to northern California.

In 1952, West Michigan serviceman Gail Dougherty and 18 others died in an Alaskan plane crash. Now, assessment begins to search for remains next summer.

Two men from Muskegon County were among 19 service members killed in the 1952 accident during the Korean War. Their remains have never been recovered.