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The pilot never made it home and is still listed as missing in action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, 75 years after the four classmates went off to war, an effort to find the pilot\u2019s Pacific crash site is in the works, thanks to that long-ago black-and-white snapshot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI can\u2019t say no to a mystery that can be solved,\u201d Justin Taylan, a New York-based WWII researcher involved in the project, told The Associated Press. \u201cThis plane can be found.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/off-duty\/2018\/01\/04\/who-are-the-men-in-soldiers-wwii-sketches\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP_17353724911099.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Who are the men in soldier&#8217;s WWII sketches?<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Before the Army\u2019s 27th Infantry Division was decimated in a bloody World War II battle, Stan Dube sketched portraits of his fellow soldiers. The 17 drawings were forgotten after the war and stashed in an attic for decades before being found a year ago by his son.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The photo of John Marcil, John McGrath, Howard McAlonie and Alfred Mahoney was taken on steps outside Catholic Central High School, then located adjacent to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, near Albany. The young men had graduated from the school two years earlier. All four happened to be home on leave in October 1943 and visited the school at the same time. The photo appeared in the class of 1944\u2032s yearbook along with pictures of other Catholic Central graduates serving in the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marcil went on to serve in the Coast Guard in the European and Pacific theaters. Mahoney served in the Army\u2019s 10th Mountain Division in Italy. McAlonie and McGrath both wound up in the Pacific, where the two were reunited on Iwo Jima after McGrath landed his fighter plane on the airfield where McAlonie and his fellow Navy Seabees were stationed after Marines captured the Japanese-held island four months earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link smg-interstitial-link--fallback wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/01\/03\/fighter-pilot-who-flew-last-combat-mission-in-world-war-ii-dies-at-93\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__fallback-link\">Fighter pilot who flew last combat mission in World War II dies at 93<\/a><\/aside>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McGrath, by then assigned to a Marine Corps fighter squadron, flew off the next day for a combat mission over a Japanese island near Okinawa. On July 21, 1945, his F4U Corsair was last seen crashing into the sea near the shoreline during a bombing run. His body was never recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday, Taylan and Michael McAlonie, Howard\u2019s son, presented McGrath\u2019s story to more than 100 veterans and others at the annual Iwo Jima anniversary event held at an American Legion post in Albany. The U.S. amphibious attack on the island began Feb. 19, 1945.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marcil, the 94-year-old Coast Guard veteran, plans to attend. He\u2019s the last of the four servicemen in the old photo still living (Mahoney died in 2005). He said he remembers his three classmates well, especially McGrath, but there was one thing he didn\u2019t know about the tall, skinny young man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI didn\u2019t realize he was as smart as he was,\u201d Marcil said. \u201cYou have to be pretty smart to become a Navy flier.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The elder McAlonie, an RPI grad who died in 2014, had told his son Michael about McGrath and how his classmate\u2019s death stayed with him throughout his life. Last year, Michael McAlonie contacted Taylan, a 2000 RPI graduate and the founder of Pacific Wrecks, whose website is a vast database of thousands of WWII plane wrecks in the Pacific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McAlonie sought information about McGrath\u2019s final mission and emailed the yearbook photo to Taylan, who found the mission\u2019s details and posted them on his website. Taylan has conducted dozens of searches of Pacific islands for American MIAs from WWII, some of them as a Pentagon contractor. Now, he\u2019s hoping to launch a search for McGrath\u2019s plane, which could still contain the pilot\u2019s remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taylan, of Hyde Park, New York, is talking to his alma mater about collaborating on a project that would enlist the skills of students at RPI, one of the nation\u2019s top engineering and computer science colleges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the RPI professors involved in the discussions said the project could entail students designing and operating such devises as submersible drones to search for McGrath\u2019s plane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s not rocket science, but if it was we have people who could do that,\u201d said art professor Igor Vamos.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During World War II, four American service men who graduated from the same upstate New York high school had their photo taken for the yearbook: a Coast Guardsman, a Navy pilot, a sailor and a soldier. 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