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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andy Gregory

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Missing second world war pilot located after 80 years - The Untold Story

Image via US Defence POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)

The remains of a Second World War pilot missing since he embarked from north Africa on a mission in a bomber jet on July 1943 have been discovered in a painstaking forensic investigation eight decades later.

The B-25 Mitchell bomber departed Tunisia to attack the Sciacca Aerodrome in Sicily with six crew members on board – but was struck by anti-aircraft fire, and crashed in a field less than 3 kilometres from its target.

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