JPAC's first mission to recover 1st Lt. Ewart T. Sconiers began on October 11, 2011, in Allies Park in Lubin, Poland and concluded Friday, October 14.  This first, brief mission focused recovery efforts only at the catalpa tree and was unsuccessul in recovering Sconiers.  It is anticipated that an expanded and more heavily staffed future mission will focus excavation efforts in the entire quadrant where DPMO determined Sconiers is buried.   

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October 11, 2011 recovery site in Allies Park, Lubin, Poland. The catalpa tree is directly in the middle of the photo. The JPAC team is joined by town officials and Sconiers family representatives

JPAC's private contractor begins

More excavation 

Szymon Serwatka, Sconiers family official representative, at excavation site

JAPC team sifting sand from excavation site

Preparation of recovery site by JPAC team.

Excavation begins

Deeper excavation

L-R: Szymon Serwatka, health offcial, Dr. Stanislaw Tokarczuk, and Stephen Marks, Sconiers family official representative and recovery journal author, at excavation site

Stephen Marks (L)  with JPAC team as soil is examined