Subdeacon Joe Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-albania-britain-pilot/a-british-pilot-a-missing-plane-and-a-ring-returned-after-70-years-idUSKBN0M51P120150309 Quote TIRANA (Reuters) - Of 14 sorties flown by British World War Two pilots supplying anti-fascist fighters in Albania on Oct. 29, 1944, 12 returned to base in Italy, one failed to discharge its load and“the other is missing and assumed to have crashed”, according to military records. For seven decades, the Handley Page Halifax bomber was believed to be at the bottom of the Adriatic Sea. Then, last October, a British and U.S. team climbed 6,000 feet (1,829 meters) into the Albanian mountains to locate its wreckage, which had been spotted by a villager out collecting herbs. “Clearly what we found was enough to suggest we had found the remains of a big four-engine bomber,” said Chris Casey, a doctor at the U.S. embassy in Tirana and part of the expedition. A British-born aviation enthusiast, Casey trawled the Internet but was frustrated in his attempts to pinpoint the identity of the plane or its crew. The vital clue would come in the form of a gold ring, engraved“Joyce & John” and held in safe keeping by an Albanian villager and then his son. Jaho Cala found the ring in 1960 while collecting metal and wood in the mountains, when Albania was shut off from the outside world by the Stalinist regime of Enver Hoxha. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2988667/World-War-II-veteran-90-brought-tears-reads-long-lost-letter-sent-future-wife-70-years-ago.html#comments Quote A chance find in a thrift store has awakened a whirlwind of emotions for one World War II veteran. Bill Moore, 90, was brought to tears recently when he read a long-lost love letter he sent his future-wife Bernadean Gibson 70 years ago, when he was a strapping young soldier, fighting with Patton's Third Army in Europe. The letter was discovered tucked inside an old record purchased at a thrift store by Ilene Ortiz of Westminster, Colorado, who worked to reunite the letter with Moore's family. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2988667/World-War-II-veteran-90-brought-tears-reads-long-lost-letter-sent-future-wife-70-years-ago.html#ixzz59gFMSr7o Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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