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The Good Works Kitchen is proud to partner with Resolute Promise LLC, whose mission is to bring home those that gave the last full measure of devotion: Americans Missing in Action.
Resolute Promise is an enterprise that is locating, recovering and bringing home remains of MIAs. This enterprise is seeking investors, sponsors and donors. Donors may make tax-exempt contributions to RP via The Good Works Kitchen.
Resolute Promise LLC has launched a project to research the site of the R5C Curtis Commando aircraft that crashed into the South Tahoma Glacier on Mount Rainier on December 10, 1946. The airplane, carrying 32 military personnel, was flying from San Diego to Seattle when it encountered extreme weather conditions. Due to the dangerous terrain, high elevation, and limited access to the location of the crash, very little is understood about the site since it was last fully observed in the summer of 1947.
Resolute Promise, a team of subject matter experts, visited Mount Rainier National Park several times through the summer of 2023 to better understand current conditions and what has happened to the wreckage since 1946. The RP group of experts performed split operations with an alpine team spending four days at high elevations, visually inspecting the site in coordination with a filming team working at lower altitudes, retracing the steps of the personnel who first saw the wreckage in 1947. Understanding changes in the glacier is germane not only to fully comprehend what has happened with the wreckage of the aircraft, but also the pernicious effects of climate change.
The team counts on the expertise of Dr. William Belcher, a board-certified forensic anthropologist and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Belcher, a long time Seattle area resident, graduate of Tumwater High and Western Washington University and the son of a retired Army heavy weapons specialist infantryman who served in Korea and Vietnam. Dr. Belcher is passionate about investigating, searching for, and recovering those who are Missing-In-Action, giving their name back to them, and bringing the opportunity for long-awaited healing to their families and loved ones.
Resolute Promise plans to continue investigating the glacier in the coming weeks and months utilizing various technologies including optical and satellite imagery.
Resolute Promise would love to hear from family members, loved ones, and friends of those lost that fateful day. https://www.resolutepromise.com/families-impact
For more information: www.resolutepromise.com or families@resolutepromise.com
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9/28/2026 UPDATE FROM RP CEO, JENNIFER POWERS:
“Our RP SQ Summer Expedition team down climbed on August 27th. Since returning we have been reviewing all of the data collected and working on our reporting. There has been a lot to process not the least of which the emotions of finally getting to see the glacier in person and getting to really get to work. We are ready to start sharing the story with you.’
“I wanted to start here, with my first in person view of the glacier. After nearly a decade of research on the crash, five hours into the hike I came out of the trees nearly to Indian Henry’s Cabin, and there it was, the South Tahoma Glacier. It was and is for me, breathtaking.”
9/30/2026 UPDATE FROM RP CEO, JENNIFER POWERS:
“We made camp at about 6300’ with a spectacular view of the glacier. An excellent vantage point for Parker to use our Leuopld SX-4 Pro Guide HD 15-45x65mm to perform a visual grid search.”
10/5/2026 UPDATE FROM RP CEO, JENNIFER POWERS:
“For an expedition like ours so many things have to come together at once and all in harmony. Fitness, weather, in-depth fine grain subject matter knowledge and understanding… and the alchemy of timing. As a team, Resolute Promise has been working together diligently to prepare.
“In early 2026, Master’s Candidate Parker Sheriff joined the team. Shortly thereafter he was handed a Leupold spotting scope and unceremoniously asked to master it. He spent hours taking photo after photo only to send them to me and for me to say, “Let’s try it this way instead.” The goal was to perform a visual grid search of the glacier and surrounding areas and to inspect every foot for potential evidence, documenting every single tiny grid point so the results could be studied and scoured for evidence.
“In parallel, we pursued the idea of utilizing drones to help scour and understand any evidence we would find via the scope. The thing is, when you add complexity, it is not one more thing, it is ten things to the power of eight.
“The Monday morning hike in was extraordinarily tough and we camped lower than planned for multiple reasons, including proximity to fresh water. This put us at 6,300’ which is a steeper angle to the glacier instead of the proposed 6,700’. There were frustrations we had not anticipated – I mean it is always something you don’t anticipate right?
“Then Tuesday morning we awoke to the heavy taste of thick smoke adding to whatever state of hypoxic angst we were in.
“Layer by layer the smoke peeled away revealing a clear view of the glacier and the box canyon that it is balanced within. Starting at about 11am, Parker was seated behind the scope to begin observations. We’d noted fairly regular rock fall from the massive headwall and added those frequent incidents to our documentation list.
“A little after 12 noon, an unexpected guest arrived in camp, an off-duty rescue ranger who came to observe our work. He offered to go with me to the original higher elevation so I could scout for observation points. This left Nick and Parker to handle all of the observations including the frequency and locations of the rock falls.
“I am telling you much of this because timing matters. Light has to be just so, and the sun just right, so shadows aren’t in the way and without glare. It has to all come together.
“After sitting staring at the glacier pondering and comparing the compounding changes over the decades with images from 1947 and 2023, I made it back to our little camp about 3:40 pm to find Parker and Nick anxious to show me something. “Jennifer, look in the scope!” What I saw was instantly recognizable: a star and bar.”
“The following day Parker and I went to the higher elevation with the scope. While he easily found and identified the debris again from this vantage point, the angle did not allow for the same obvious presentation of the star and bar. Seeing that emblem in such clear recognizable detail was most possible from the angle of the lower altitude.
“We did find other wreckage debris though none the size or the same easily recognizable nature of the piece with the star and bar. At this point we are working on all of our reporting and making plans for our next steps all while still processing the emotions of those intense hours on the mountain. We will post more as things settle.
“Thanks for following along!”
~ Jennifer
HERE IS THE STAR AND BAR!!