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    Team Mildenhall helps recover WWII MIA pilot 2nd Lt. Lester Lowry [Image 4 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 box holds some of the almost 5,000 artefacts and small aircraft parts from a P-47 Thunderbolt which came down during a training flight Jan. 26, 1944, at the crash site on private farmland in Essex, England, Sept. 23, 2025. The finds were discovered by archaeologists and volunteers in partnership with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Volunteers from the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, Canada and the Ministry of Defence’s Operation Nightingale program, together with the local community members, worked together over a six-week period to investigate the crash site of World War II U.S. Army Air Forces pilot, 2nd Lt. Lester Lowry, and his aircraft. (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: 9417348
    VIRIN: 250923-F-EJ686-1014
    Resolution: 6600x4608
    Size: 6.46 MB
    Location: ESSEX, GB

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