Army Staff Sgt. Sonny Cooper, a UH-60 Black Hawk crew chief assigned to the Alaska Army National Guard, prepares to usher passengers onto a helicopter at Colony Glacier, Alaska, June 17, 2021. Operation Colony Glacier is an effort to recover the remains of service members and wreckage from a C-124 aircraft that crash landed in November 1952 with 52 military members on board. The wreckage was discovered in 2012 and a recovery effort has taken place each summer. This will be the 9th year of recovery efforts.

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