Excavation of a World War II P-38 crash site in Austria unearths 'possible human remains'
By JOHN LOVETT | Times Record | Published: May 2, 2021 (Tribune News Service) — On July 8, 1944, a P-38 piloted by 23-year-old 2nd Lt. Henry Donald Mitchell of Harmon, Ark., crash-landed in a deeply wooded area near Waldegg, Austria, after a flight sweep to Vienna with the 48th Fighter Squadron. Ever since then, his younger brother Bob Mitchell of Fort Smith has wondered what exactly happened that day. This week, new hope came by email from the U.S. Department of POW/MIA Accounting Agency. After decades of not being able to search the crash site, a team with the agency was rec...
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