The remains of a U.S. airman from Pennsylvania who was killed when his bomber crashed on an English farm during World War II have been discovered and formally identified 79 years later.
Lieutenant William Montgomery’s B-24 Liberator was shot down near Arundel, West Sussex, on June 22, 1944, the U.K.’s Bournemouth News & Picture Service (BNPS) reported.
Montgomery was only 24 years old when he died, Fox 29 reported.
His plane reportedly was shot by anti-aircraft flak during an attack on a German airfield in northern France, but was able to “limp” across the English Channel before it began losing height off the Sussex coast, BNPS said.
