# @ucberkeleyofficial on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-11-11T20:40:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** UC Berkeley (@ucberkeleyofficial) — https://gondola.cc/ucberkeleyofficial

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Jun Sunseri remembers his grandfather sharing stories about his service in World War II. A mechanic in the U.S. Army Air Forces, Sunseri’s grandfather was deployed to North Africa and Italy, where he repaired bombers and fighter planes that flew across Europe. 

Sunseri also recalls his grandfather’s sadness about the friends who never made it home. 

Now an associate professor of anthropology and archaeology at UC Berkeley, Sunseri is working to build a system that can expedite their recovery and finally deliver closure to their families. 

More than 80,000 American service personnel are missing from previous conflicts. Some 38,000 of their remains are estimated to be recoverable. The wreckage sites are vast and often in hard-to-reach forests, mountains or bodies of water. Scraps of metal can look the same. Highly trained and experienced aircraft experts who could tell the difference between an aluminum shard from a wing and a steel shard from a cockpit are thousands of miles away. 

That’s where Sunseri comes in. 

Sunseri’s lab has begun developing a three-pronged approach to build a library of 2D and 3D images and video resources that can be used by teams deployed to work at crash sites to expedite digs and increase the chances of a successful recovery. 

The project is in its early stages and will involve crowdsourcing images, videos and scans from people around the world. Others will be able to help validate the images. 

Ultimately, the team hopes to create databases that can be accessed offline and from the field. On the ground, that could help the team orient itself within a large debris site and more quickly get to the areas where the remains of crewmembers might be.

“In the end,” he said, “it’s about giving these families closure and finally bringing these service members home.”
🔗  Visit the link in our bio to learn more about this work. https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/11/07/how-crowdsourcing-and-phone-cameras-could-help-bring-fallen-soldiers-home/

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