Second Lt. Lester L. Lowry was flying a P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft when he lost control in heavy cloud and dove straight into ...

While most of those missing troops were identified primarily using DNA and dental records, the U.S. government is turning to British archaeologists to help find a World War II pilot whose plane ...

Julia Maruca Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023 7:52 p.m. | Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023 7:52 p.m. Among the trees of a national forest park near Frankfurt, Germany, survey lines, pin flags and neatly aligned squares ...

A co-pilot’s dog tag helped identify plane wreckage as a missing WWII bomber in the English countryside. Screengrab from Cotswold Archaeology's Facebook post From the first days of World War II in ...

NEW ORLEANS (WDSU) — A group of University of New Orleans students are headed overseas to excavate at a suspected crash site of a U.S. bomber from World War II. The students and Dr. Ryan Gray, a ...

Archaeologists in England have excavated an experimental catapult designed to launch World War II bomber planes into the air. The catapult, called the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) Mark III ...

Restoration work on a metal artifact found in Berlin, Germany, has revealed it to be an "ornately decorated" Japanese sword that possibly dates to the 17th century. The object was uncovered in the ...