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    Team Mildenhall helps recover WWII MIA pilot 2nd Lt. Lester Lowry [Image 3 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   

    A volunteer 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. (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: 9417340
    VIRIN: 250923-F-EJ686-1006
    Resolution: 3664x5400
    Size: 2.67 MB
    Location: ESSEX, GB

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