On March 27, Air Force Museum Foundation to host presentation on efforts to repatriate some of the more than 80,000 American MIAs since WWII March 27th at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force™.
Dayton, Ohio – Mar 13, 2025 — The Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc., continues the 2025 Celebrating Aviation series on Wednesday, March 27, with a presentation about Project Recover, and a special screening of the film To What Remains on the large screen Air Force Museum Theatre at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m., and the presentation will begin at 6:00. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at https://airforcemuseum.centeredgeonline.com/movie/buyticketswithdate/122.
To What Remains is a stirring, feature-length documentary from Imperative Entertainment, ABRAMORAMA, and directed by Christopher Woods, that follows the efforts of the non-profit Project Recover to repatriate some of the more than 80,000 Americans missing in action (MIAs) since World War II. The film incorporates the stories of several MIAs and their families to illustrate the process of researching, searching for, and finding the remains of those MIAs so they can finally be brought home. It includes the search for Lt R. R. Houle, commanding officer of Ensign George H. W. Bush’s TBM Avenger squadron, and also follows Tommy Doyle, son of SSgt Jimmie Doyle, as he dives on the crash site of his father’s plane more than six decades later. To What Remains is a powerful testament to how one person’s commitment to ‘do the right thing’ motivates an ever-growing number of people to do the same.
The presentation will feature another family member, Scott Althaus, who will introduce the film and give a presentation and take questions following the showing. In 2013, Althaus began researching his cousin-once-removed, 2nd Lt. Thomas Kelly, Jr., who had been MIA since 1944. In 2017, after turning his family’s research over to Project Recover, Althaus learned that they had located the site of Kelly’s B-24 Heaven Can Wait in Hansa Bay, Papua, New Guinea, and were presenting their findings to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, which is responsible for recovering, identifying, and repatriating remains. Scott Althaus has become a member of Project Recover himself.
This event is being presented in combination with the special exhibits OceanXperience and Drop in the Ocean the Foundation is hosting at the Museum through April 27. Attendees will be able to experience both in the 4th building at no charge following the Project Recover presentation.
Tickets are $20 per person and can be ordered online at https://airforcemuseum.centeredgeonline.com/movie/buyticketswithdate/122.
OceanXperience is a traveling exhibition produced and toured internationally by Flying Fish, based on the National Geographic series OceanXplorers, produced by BBC Studios Natural History Unit and OceanX in association with Lightship Earth Productions and made possible through the generous support of the Air Force Museum Foundation.
About the Air Force Museum Foundation
The Air Force Museum Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that raises funds and awareness in support of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force™. Since 1960, the Foundation has provided nearly $100 million for expansions, special exhibits, restorations, enhancements, educational programs, and more. The Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc. is not part of the Department of Defense or any of its components, and it has no government status. The use of the Roundel image in the Foundation’s logo is with the permission of the United States Air Force; endorsement by the Department of Defense or the United States Air Force in fundraising activities of the Foundation is not intended nor implied pursuant to DoDI 5535.12. For more information on the Air Force Museum Foundation, visit AirForceMuseumFoundation.org.
About the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, is the world’s largest military aviation museum. With free admission and parking, the museum features more than 350 aerospace vehicles and missiles and thousands of artifacts amid more than 19 acres of indoor exhibit space. Each year about one million visitors from around the world come to the museum. For more information, visit www.nationalmuseum.af.mil.
