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Mark Noah

When UPS pilot Mark Noah isn’t flying around the country, he’s often helping to locate the remains of missing American servicemen from World War II in Europe and the Pacific. Noah is the president and founder of History Flight, a nonprofit he started in 2003 to restore vintage aircraft and preserve aviation history. Once he learned nearly 80,000 U.S. military members were still missing in action from World War II, however, his organization began assembling teams to find the remains and have them properly interred. To date History Flight has recovered 325 sets of remains, many of them from forgotten graves on the central Pacific island of Tarawa. For his dedicated efforts Noah was named an honorary Marine by the commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, a distinction he shares with fewer than 100 individuals. Noah recently spoke with Military History about why he gives so much of his time and money to this cause.

How did History Flight begin?

We started 16 years ago restoring