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    Team Mildenhall helps recover WWII MIA pilot 2nd Lt. Lester Lowry [Image 2 of 11]

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    Team Mildenhall helps recover WWII MIA pilot 2nd Lt. Lester Lowry

    ESSEX, UNITED KINGDOM

    09.22.2025

    Photo by Karen Abeyasekere 

    100th Air Refueling Wing   

    Canadian Army and Royal Canadian Air Force retired-Capt. Jocelyne Letain cleans aircraft parts found at a crash site in Essex, England, Sept. 23, 2025. In January 1944, U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd. Lt. Lester Lowry was flying a P-47 Thunderbolt out of RAF Bodney, Norfolk, on a training flight over Essex, when he was involved in an accident as the aircraft dove vertically at speed and crashed into a field. Lowry was the only person on the plane and according to local residents at the time, did not have the opportunity to bail out. (U.S. Air Force photo by Karen Abeyasekere)

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    Date Taken: 09.22.2025
    Date Posted: 12.02.2025 08:21
    Photo ID: 9417339
    VIRIN: 250923-F-EJ686-1004
    Resolution: 4832x6552
    Size: 4.91 MB
    Location: ESSEX, GB

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