BonnieLass
20th Jun 2024, 12:36
A young pilot, 21 year old John Wesley Fisher Jnr, died in 1944 when his Operation Aphrodite B-17 crashed in Watling Wood, Suffolk. Before the aircraft crashed he was able to push his copilot out, Sgt Elmer Most, and he managed to make sure the aircraft avoided residential areas. He was highly decorated, leaving a wife and young child back at home in the US.
At the time of the crash, his remains were not found but now a combined team from Cotswold Archaeology and the DPAA are searching the area where the aircraft fell to see if anything can be found of First Lieutenant Fisher.
https://www.honorstates.org/index.php?id=92094
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13550303/Hunt-WWII-hero-airman-malfunctioning-flying-bomb-village.html
He is remembered at the American Cemetery near Cambridge on the Tablets to the Missing.
https://www.abmc.gov/Cambridge
Hopefully the team will find trace of this brave young man, they have already found several pieces of his aircraft.
At the time of the crash, his remains were not found but now a combined team from Cotswold Archaeology and the DPAA are searching the area where the aircraft fell to see if anything can be found of First Lieutenant Fisher.
https://www.honorstates.org/index.php?id=92094
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13550303/Hunt-WWII-hero-airman-malfunctioning-flying-bomb-village.html
He is remembered at the American Cemetery near Cambridge on the Tablets to the Missing.
https://www.abmc.gov/Cambridge
Hopefully the team will find trace of this brave young man, they have already found several pieces of his aircraft.