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It's my job to do a skeletal analysis blind, so I don't bias myself. We were presented with 11 teeth; a right humerus, that's relatively intact compared to everything else; a fragment of a vertebra; a handful of, sort of, non-diagnostic long bone fragments-we can more or less just tell that they're bone; some fingers, a bit of a toe, and then most of the lower right leg, so a tibia and a fibula. The first question I generally ask is the minimum number of individuals. So, we try and figure out if this could be, or is, more than one person. Based on this case, the skeletal-it's called M.N.I. or "minimum number of individuals" the skeletal M.N.I. is one. I have good reason to think that this is one individual. So, I can tell that this is all teeth from one individual, based on tooth shape, the size of the tooth, and more or less what they look like. We more or less measure how long the tibia is. The stature for this individual that we estimated was right around 5 foot 10. This is where we take the unknown and we put a name to them....so, based on that, the laboratory analysis, established remains of those as First Lieutenant Eugene Ford, serial number Oscar 805804, U.S. Army Air Forces.