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About 400,000 American servicemen died in WWII and of that number, 73,000 are yet to be accounted for. Many lost their lives over the Republic of Palau in the Pacific Ocean between Australia and China where fierce battles were fought 71 years ago between the Japanese and allied military forces near the end of WWII. Mike Sandler, 58, of Navarre is related to one of those 73,000 missing in action, retired Lt. Norman W. Sandler, U.S. Navy.
The nose section of a Zero fighter lies in shallow waters on Feb. 28 off the coast of Ngeruktabel Island, part of the Republic of Palau in the Pacific Ocean, where fierce battles were fought 71 years ago between Japanese and Allied military forces in the ending phase of World War II. (The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images )
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