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Second Lt. Lester L. Lowry was flying a P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft when he dove and crashed into the ground in Essex, England, on Jan. 26, 1944

In the 80 years since the accident, he has been listed as a soldier missing in action

In 2025, U.K. archaeologists with Cotswold Archaeology found over 5,000 artifacts from the crash and continue working to recover his remains

The site of a fallen World War II soldier's plane has been identified 80 years later.

At the time of the crash, Second Lt. Lester L. Lowry was flying a P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft, named “Lucky Boy,” during a training exercise near Essex, England, on Jan. 26, 1944, according to The Guardian . Then the 23-year-old's plane suddenly dove straight into the ground and caught on fire.

Lowry has been listed as a

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