Recovery of KN563 A Homemade PowerPoint Game By Michael Barbour Wayne State University Play the game Game Directions Story Credits Copyright Notice Objectives © 2008 National Film Board of Canada

The Story of “Recovery of KN563” You’ve been asked to help a team from the Canadian military recover artifacts and remains from a crash of a World War II C-47 Dakota airplane that failed to return to base in Burma during the closing days of the war. A clue to the location of the missing plane and its crew has been found by a local in a remote jungle area in the north near the border with India. In order to help the recovery team, you will need to answer a series of questions that will allow you to make progress in the recovery effort. If you answer incorrectly the Government of Burma will shut down the operation and you will have to start over. Are you up to the challenge? Home Page © 2008 National Film Board of Canada

Game Directions The goal of the game is to help the recovery team by answering the questions correctly. To play the game you have to watch excerpts of the film Lost Over Burma: Search for Closure and answer questions based on the film. To win the game you have to answer all of the questions from the three levels correctly. Return © 2008 National Film Board of Canada

Credits All teachers and students at non-profit schools can use, revise, or adapt this game at no cost on the condition that all prior designers are cited. Originally designed by Michael Barbour, Wayne State University, January 25, 2008 with the title “Recovery of KN563.” Home Page © 2008 National Film Board of Canada

Educational Objectives Audience –Middle and Secondary School Students Subject Area Objectives –Students will be able to identify the mission of the KN563 –Students will be able to describe the recovery mission for the KN563 Home Page © 2008 National Film Board of Canada

Copyright Copyright 2008 National Film Board of Canada Designer : Michael Barbour Permission to copy this game at no cost is granted to all teachers and students of non-profit schools. Permission is also granted to all teachers and students of non-profit schools to make revisions to this game for their own purposes, on the condition that this copyright page and the credits page remain part of the game. Teachers and students who adapt the game should add their names and affiliations to the credits page without deleting any names already there. Home Page © 2008 National Film Board of Canada

Time to play “Recovery of KN563”! Home PageGame Directions Please view the first excerpt of the film Lost Over Burma: Search for Closure before beginning this first level of questions. Begin © 2008 National Film Board of Canada

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1. How old was the youngest crewman on the KN563? Home Page © 2008 National Film Board of Canada

2. How old was the oldest crewman? Home Page © 2008 National Film Board of Canada

3. What was the crew dropping? Home Page Rice and flour Military supplies Bombs Paratroopers © 2008 National Film Board of Canada

4. Why was the search stopped? Home Page The war ended. There was too much anti-aircraft fire. They had searched everywhere. They didn’t know where to search. © 2008 National Film Board of Canada

So far, so good… You answered all of the questions from the first level correctly and your team has found a series of small bones that have been verified as belonging to the airmen. You are well underway with the recovery effort. Please view the second excerpt of the film Lost Over Burma: Search for Closure before beginning this next level of questions. Begin © 2008 National Film Board of Canada

5. When did the recovery team finally go to Burma? Home Page © 2008 National Film Board of Canada

6. What was not an aim of the mission? Home Page To look for survivors To recover the bodies. To locate the plane. To recover artifacts. © 2008 National Film Board of Canada

7. What was the status of the plane when they found it? Home Page It was broken up into little bits. It has been completed rusted or salvaged. It was still in one main piece. It was broken into a few large sections. © 2008 National Film Board of Canada

8. What was something that didn’t come as a surprise to the recovery team? Home Page The landing zone had been cleared. How badly the plane was broken up. There was a well-beaten path to the plane. The crash site was in a clearing. © 2008 National Film Board of Canada

9. Which of the following wasn’t a theory of what happened to the plane? Home Page It was shot down. It lost a wing and then crashed. It flipped over, then crashed. The monsoon winds forced it down. © 2008 National Film Board of Canada

Almost finished… You answered all of the questions from the second level correctly and your team is beginning to find some personal effects from the airmen. Time is growing short and you have only one day to finish the recovery. Please view the third excerpt of the film Lost Over Burma: Search for Closure before beginning this final level of questions. Begin © 2008 National Film Board of Canada

10. Whose watch was found at the crash site by the recovery team? Home Page Stanley (Jimmy) Cox’s David Cameron’s William (Bill) Rogers’ William (Bill) Kyle’s © 2008 National Film Board of Canada

11. Which of the following is not a reason why the recovery team was concerned there would be no remains found? Home Page They survived the crash and died elsewhere. Decay of the bodies. Force of the crash. Scavenging from locals. © 2008 National Film Board of Canada

12. Which of the following is not a reason the soldiers on the recovery team were moved when they found a watch? Home Page This was the first time some of them had laid comrades to rest. They had an artifact to return to a family member. It belonged to someone who died serving their country. Some thought it could have happened to them as soldiers. © 2008 National Film Board of Canada

Congratulations You’ve helped the team recover some of the remains of the six airmen, along with a number of personal effects. These remains will now be laid to rest at the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery in Taukkyan near Rangoon (now Yangon), and the personal effects will be returned to the airmen’s families. You have served your country well!!! © 2008 National Film Board of Canada