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Pieces of internal couplings from a B-17 Flying Fortress are recovered from a farmer’s field during an archaeological dig Sept. 19, 2023, in East Anglia, England. The aircraft – “Little Boy Blue” – crashed July 19, 1944, while on its way to bomb a ball-bearing factory and other industrial complexes in Schweinfurt, Germany. An archaeological team from Cotswold Archaeology, partners with the U. S. Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Agency, led volunteers from a U.K. Ministry of Defence Infrastructure Organization program known as “Operation Nightingale,” on a Missing in Action/Killed in Action recovery operation of the World War II B-17 recovery crash site in September 2023. Eighty years later, July 19, 2024, U.S. Airmen from Royal Air Force Mildenhall, England, attended a memorial ceremony and laid a wreath to honor the crewmembers who perished that day. (U.S. Air Force photo by Karen Abeyasekere)
| Date Taken: | 09.14.2023 |
| Date Posted: | 07.31.2024 05:45 |
| Photo ID: | 8560326 |
| VIRIN: | 230914-F-EJ686-1003 |
| Resolution: | 6000x4000 |
| Size: | 2.28 MB |
| Location: | BURY ST EDMUNDS, SUFFOLK, GB |
| Web Views: | 46 |
| Downloads: | 1 |
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100th ARW honors WWII B-17 ‘Little Boy Blue’ on 80th anniversary of crash
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