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THE PLANE THAT NEVER CRASHED AT SEA: A WWII DISAPPEARANCE REVEALED AFTER 70 YEARS

In 1944, a fighter pilot vanished during what the Army Air Forces described as a routine transfer mission in a P-47 Thunderbolt. His family was told the plane was lost over the English Channel, no wreckage found, and the case closed without investigation. His young son, Robert, spent decades searching for answers, writing to archives and military offices until his death in 1998, never learning the truth. In 2014, a violent storm in Belgium’s Ardennes forest uncovered a buried P-47—far from the Channel. The serial number matched the missing aircraft, which showed evidence of German ground fire, not mechanical failure. Nearby, a shallow grave revealed human remains wrapped in a flight jacket, exposing inconsistencies in official records. The discovery forced authorities to confront a long-buried secret involving a classified wartime operation and erased missions, proving the pilot’s fate had been deliberately concealed for generations.