Site of 1944 Bomber Crash in UK Being Dug Up in Effort to Bring US Air Crew Home

Archaeologists and American Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency staff work to recover the remains of an American bomber crew, whose aircraft crashed at a site in Arundel in 1944, in Sussex, UK, on June 28, 2021. Gareth Fuller/PA

A team of American veterans are digging up a field in Sussex, United Kingdom, where a bomber plane crashed during the Second World War in an effort to finally bring their fallen compatriots home.

In June 1944—two weeks after Allied troops landed in France on D-Day—a B-24 Liberator was in a group conducting a bombing raid near Paris when it took severe damage from anti-aircraft fire.