Patrick Ranfranz has recently partnered with the Yap Visitors Bureau to share his extensive research of Yap Island's involvement in WWII. He is currently helping to train the island's tour guides to support the tourism industry and further document Yap's WWII history. Pat will be presenting an overview and recent finds resulting from his research at the 40th annual Our World Underwater show in Chicago February 19-21 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center. For more information about this show visit www.OurWorldUnderwater.com Pat has been interested in military history since childhood. He holds a degree in History & Anthropology, is founder of the Missing Air-Crew Project www.MissingAirCrew.com, and Historian for the 307th Bomb Group, www.307bg.org. He has devoted more than twenty years to the investigation and search for his missing uncle and other men who were shot down near Yap Island in World War II. Pat has taken numerous trips to Yap Island, the National Archives and other research locations, and made close to 100 dives to document more than thirty-five American planes and 110 men who were shot down near Yap and are still unaccounted for. These losses are only a fraction of the 78,000 American soldiers worldwide that remain missing since WWII. Over the last two years he has received help from the History Flight Organization, www.HistoryFlight.org, offering underwater search equipment such as side-scanning sonar and magnetometers. In his "paying" career, Pat is a successful marketing executive. He spent sixteen years in educational publishing and is currently the marketing director for Rice Lake Weighing Systems, a world-wide private weighing company. In addition, Pat is an accomplished private pilot, marathon runner, diver, historian and all-around sportsman.