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作者：克里·布林（Kerry Breen）
克里·布林是CBSNews.com的新闻编辑，毕业于纽约大学亚瑟·L·卡特新闻学院，此前曾在NBC新闻的《今日数字》（TODAY Digital）任职。她负责报道时事、突发新闻以及包括药物滥用在内的相关议题。
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美国军方周三宣布，一名在二战期间于泰国和缅甸上空执行间谍任务时失踪的21岁空军人员已被确认身份。
据美国国防部战俘/失踪人员会计局（DPAA）消息，美国陆军航空队第一中尉富兰克林·H·麦金尼（Franklin H. McKinney）来自罗德岛州，隶属于第14航空队第35 photo侦察中队，该中队绰号“红鹰”。
1944年11月5日，麦金尼从中国云南益的美国军事基地起飞，前往缅甸和泰国上空执行侦察任务。DPAA未明确麦金尼此次任务的具体目标，但据美国空军介绍，该中队以大胆的间谍任务闻名，这些任务“帮助扭转了中国战场的战争局势”。
DPAA表示，麦金尼的F5E-2-LO“闪电”战机离开基地后便失去联系，他再也没能从任务中返回。在其飞行路线上未发现坠毁痕迹，战后也未能立即找到他的遗骸。麦金尼的名字被刻在菲律宾马尼拉美军公墓的失踪人员名录碑上。
美国陆军航空队第一中尉富兰克林·H·麦金尼。美国国防部战俘/失踪人员会计局 供图
数十年后，寻找他遗骸的新工作启动。据DPAA透露，泰国皇家空军博物馆的一份战时报告显示，麦金尼失踪当日，有一架飞机遭到雷击。报告称，该战机爆炸后坠毁在泰国南邦府的一片林区。2018年，第三方研究人员在该区域的一片稻田中发现了一处坠毁现场，他们认为这与麦金尼的战机有关。DPAA团队分别于2019年和2021年对该现场进行了调查。
2022年，一支回收团队对该现场进行发掘，找到了疑似人类遗骸。这些遗骸被送往DPAA实验室，通过“现代法医技术”被确认属于麦金尼。
如今麦金尼的身份已得到确认，他的家人将收到DPAA的情况通报。失踪人员名录墙上将在他的名字旁刻上一枚玫瑰饰章。DPAA还将安排以全套军事荣誉仪式安葬麦金尼。
Remains of World War II pilot killed during spy mission identified 82 years after plane disappeared
July 2, 2026 / 11:16 AM EDT / CBS News
By Kerry Breen
Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University’s Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously worked at NBC News’ TODAY Digital. She covers current events, breaking news and issues including substance use.
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A 21-year-old airman who disappeared during a World War II spy mission over Thailand and Burma has been accounted for, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Franklin H. McKinney was a pilot from Rhode Island and part of the 35th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron, 14th Air Force, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. The squadron was nicknamed the “Redhawks.”
On November 5, 1944, McKinney took off from a U.S. base in Yunnanyi, China to fly a reconnaissance mission over Burma and Thailand. The DPAA did not specify the goal of McKinney’s mission, but the squadron was known for daring spy missions that “helped turn the tide of the war in China,” according to the Air Force.
No contact was made with McKinney’s F5E-2-LO Lightning aircraft after it left the base, the DPAA said, and he never returned from the mission. No evidence of a crash was discovered among his route, and his remains could not be found immediately after the war. McKinney’s name was engraved on the Tablets of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Franklin H. McKinney. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Decades later, new efforts to find his remains began. A wartime report from the Royal Thai Air Force Museum indicated that on the day McKinney disappeared, a plane was struck by lightning, according to the DPAA. The aircraft exploded and crashed in a wooded area in Thailand’s Lampang Province, according to the report. In 2018, third-party researchers found a crash site in a rice paddy in the region that they were able to associate with McKinney’s aircraft. DPAA teams investigated the site in 2019 and 2021.
A recovery team excavated the site and found possible human remains there in 2022. Those remains were transported to the DPAA laboratory, where “modern forensic techniques” were used to identify them as belonging to McKinney.
Now that McKinney has been accounted for, his family will receive a briefing from the DPAA. A rosette will be engraved next to his name on the Walls of the Missing. The DPAA will also arrange for him to be laid to rest with full military honors.
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