The wreckage of a missing RAF Lancaster bomber, shot down almost 70 years ago on D-Day, has been identified by a British historian - from the inscription on a crew member’s gold ring.
Eight decorated servicemen died when the MK III Lancaster was attacked by a Luftwaffe ace during a dawn raid on German gun emplacements in Normandy, France, on June 6 in 1944.
None of their bodies were found and the plane lay undiscovered for 68 years until it was pinpointed by aviation archaeologist Tony Graves, after French locals saw a wheel sticking out of the earth.
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