Donna Lyons Interviews Lou Sapienza From Fallen American Veterans Foundation

In September of 2012, Lou and his North South Polar team returned from their second Greenland expedition for the US Coast Guard. The expedition succeeded in locating a J2F-4 Grumman Duck amphibious biplane containing three heroic American servicemen who had been missing since November 29th, 1942. Now entombed in ice forty feet below a glacier surface, the plane and its crew went down while attempting to rescue other Americans stranded on the Greenland ice cap. Plans are now underway to recover the Grumman Duck’s crew for their families and the aircraft to be restored as a memorial to the men.

Lou Sapienza is co-founder of the Fallen American Veterans Foundation. His guiding principle is to honor the promise of “Leave No Man Behind.” He formed and leads a remarkable coalition of world-renowned explorers, scientists, engineers and specialists – global experts – on private and governmental missions to recover American servicemen Missing-In-Action from World War II.