For the brave pilots, it was not some corner of a foreign field that became their final resting place – rather the very heartland of England. And today poppies were laid in their honour in the hills of Derbyshire’s Peak District whose mountaintops claimed the lives of 157 airmen during the Second World War. Two small ceremonies at two remote [...]
A dive bomber fell into Lake Michigan in a training exercise in 1944. After 65 years, the unit has been rescued from the lake to be restored back to its flight condition. The plane in question was a Douglas SBD Dauntless bomber and 24 April 2009 the work was completed to retrieve from the bottom, 60 miles from Chicago, taking [...]
Freshly retrieved from ‘Crooked Lake’ near the town of Severomorsk in the Murmansk region of Russia is the IL-2 Sturmovik wreck pictured below. The wreck was lifted on 21st June 2012 by a team named ‘Icarus’ from the city of Zaozersk This particular IL-2 served with 46th Air Assault Regiment of the Northern Fleet and made an emergency landing on [...]
What we do… This website was established by Clayton Kuhles. The purpose of this website is to disseminate information about my ongoing expeditions in China, Burma and India to locate and recover missing-in-action (MIA) US airmen who disappeared in that area of Asia during WW II. The information posted on this website is intended to help bring some level of closure [...]
For nearly all of his life, Charles Gross was under the impression that his uncle had died in 1944 when the bomber he was in crashed into the ocean during a World War II training exercise. The bodies of the seven Marines aboard a PBJ-1D Mitchell were unrecoverable, he thought. The family was told at the time that Marine Cpl. [...]
At One o`clock a.m. 36 planes of squadrons 9th and 617th took off flightbase in Lossiemouth in North of Scotland. Mission target was German battleship “Tirpitz”. This was the second try to sink Tirpitz. First the flight went north over the north Atlantic. Weather was bad. From North Atlantic flight turned east flying high altitude over Norway and further towards [...]
A rare Spitfire Mark I takes to the skies once more It is regarded by purists as the true Supermarine Spitfire and now a rare Mark I has been rebuilt and is once again flying over England. The order came through on May 23, 1940 for Flight Officer Peter Cazenove to head for RAF Hornchurch, Essex in his aircraft for [...]
A Lincolnshire farmer has told how he spent 15 years trying to find a lost squadron of Spitfires that was buried in Burma at the end of the Second World War. The extraordinary plans to dig up the lost squadron were revealed this weekend as David Cameron visits the country. Now, David Cundall, 62, of Sandtoft, near Scunthorpe, has spoken [...]
To the U.S. military, Carter Lutes, a pilot who vanished in Papua New Guinea in April 1944, is one of the lost heroes of World War II. The Pentagon still hopes to recover him. Until then, it considers his jungle crash site a sacred place – and the last known clue to finding him. Yet while the military was making [...]
‘I never knew people could love an old man so much’: WWII vet, 91, ‘saved from daughter’s eviction’ after $138,000 raised onlineMay 22, 2013
Bomber Command veterans boycotting ‘insulting’ awardMay 22, 2013
Countdown to raising the Dornier commencesMay 22, 2013
When wartime appearances were deceiving by designMay 22, 2013
American fighter still hidden under North Wales beachMay 22, 2013
What to Bring to a War: A Packing List for WWII Army NursesMay 22, 2013
Drunkenness, jeep accidents, sexual assault – The Dark Side of LiberationMay 22, 2013
Dame Judi Dench launches £1.5m campaign for maintenance of Bomber Command MemorialMay 22, 2013
Obituaries Brigadier-General Zdenek Skarvada: Spitfire pilot who later underwent forced labourMay 22, 2013
Russia to Scrap World’s Biggest Nuclear SubsMay 22, 2013
Raising a World War II Bomber From the English ChannelMay 22, 2013
New Interactive Timeline and Map Allows You to Explore the History of World War IMay 22, 2013
87 shipwrecks, most from WWII, could leak oil near US, but no ‘ticking time bombs’May 22, 2013
Cold War cartography: Mapping where Soviets could – and could not – go in 1950′s AmericaMay 21, 2013
New monument honors ‘overlooked’ WWII aviators killed in training at Columbia baseMay 21, 2013
P-38 Lightning Crash Site at Siar IslandMay 21, 2013
WWI German submarine has underwater Lake Michigan graveMay 21, 2013
Billionaire Paul Allen gets V-2 rocket for aviation museum near SeattleMay 21, 2013
Pictures emerge of Field Marshal Montgomery visiting pivotal El Alamein battlefield 25 years after he defeated the GermansMay 21, 2013
Blown out of proportion? Student arrested for posing by Russian WWII memorial with an inflatable sex dollMay 21, 2013
