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FILE - In this October 1943 file photo provided by Catholic Central High School, four classmates in military uniform walk down the stairs at Catholic Central High School in Troy, N.Y. From left are John Marcil, John McGrath, Howard McAlonie and Alfred Mahoney. World War II researcher Justin Taylan says airplane wreckage on the ocean floor near Okinawa is from the fighter-bomber flown by McGrath, who's still listed as missing in action. (Catholic Central High School via AP, FILE)

WWII researcher: Sea wreck must be plane of US MIA pilot

By CHRIS CAROLA - Associated Press

In this March 2017, photo provided by Justin Taylan, Jon O’Neill, right, poses with World War II historian Justin Taylan for a selfie in De Land, Fla. Jon O’Neill flew 23 hours from Florida to the mountainous jungles of Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific in search of clues to the life of his war hero father whom he can barely remember. At times it has been a painful journey of discovery among the rusted relics entangled in undergrowth of a conflict that ended for his father, U.S. Army Air Forces 9th Fighter Squadron of the 49th Fighter Group ace John G. “Jump” O’Neill, 75 years ago. (Justin Taylan via AP)

Son retraces US war hero dad’s footsteps in Papua New Guinea

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

In this October 1943 photo provided by Catholic Central High School, four classmates in military uniform walk down the stairs at Catholic Central High School in Troy, N.Y. From left are John Marcil, John McGrath, Howard McAlonie and Alfred Mahoney. The 75-year-old yearbook photo of the four young men serving during World War II is spurring an effort to locate the lost airplane flown by John McGrath, the only one in the picture not to make it home. (Catholic Central High School via AP)

Old yearbook photo spurs effort to find missing WWII pilot

By CHRIS CAROLA - Associated Press

In this 2014 photo provided by Pacific Wrecks, Justin Taylan, founder and director of Pacific Wrecks poses at a World War II airplane wreck site in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Taylan founded Pacific Wrecks 20 years ago after visiting crash sites and battlefields with his grandfather, a WWII veteran. Since then, the 37-year-old Hyde Park, N.Y., native has visited PNG dozens of times to search its dense jungles for wreck sites and is wrapping up a two-year contract with the Pentagon to help find the remains of Americans still listed as missing in action there. (Marcus Browning/Pacific Wrecks via AP)

Pentagon enlisting outsiders to help search for US WWII MIAs

By CHRIS CAROLA - Associated Press