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Hello Rich,
Please forgive me for not replying to your update sooner. Over the last year, I have focused all my attention on getting the Defense Department to send a recovery team to my uncle Lt. Irwin Zaetz' crash site in Arunachal Pradesh, India. In fact, it wasn't until this evening that I saw your most recent update, now that my family's recovery efforts have started bearing fruit. I am not a relative of Cpl. McAdoo, but I am trying to assist Clayton Kuhles, the Arizonan who discovered Cpl. McAdoo's wreckage in India, in finding next of kin of all the members of Cpl. McAdoo's crew. What I have found out so far is that Robert L. McAdoo, Jr. was the only son of Robert L. McAdoo, Sr. and Iris Marie Weaver McAdoo, both born in Tennessee. I believe that Robert L. McAdoo Sr. was the son of R. B. McAdoo and Lucy McAdoo, and that Iris Marie Weaver McAdoo was the daughter of James A. Weaver and Minnie M. Weaver. Iris died in 1967 in Rusk County, Texas and Robert, Sr. died in Rusk County in 1975. Cpl. McAdoo graduated from Baylor University in 1942, and joined the Army Air Corps that same year. Cpl. McAdoo's aircraft - a C-109 tanker - disappeared on July 17, 1945 on a flight from Jorhat, India to Hsinching, China. After a futile search, the crew was declared MIA, presumed dead. There is a memorial to Cpl. McAdoo on the Tablets of the Missing at the American Military Cemetery in Manila, Philippines. On October 22, 2007, Clayton Kuhles reached the crashsite of Cpl. McAdoo's aircraft on foot, and reported his discovery to the Defense Department, leaving the crashsite undisturbed. It is believed that remains of Cpl. McAdoo and the rest of his crew are still at the crash site. Clayton's website - www.miarecoveries.org -- has photos he took of the aircraft wreckage.
Gary Zaetz
Tel. 919-851-2242
email: garyngina@earthlink.net
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