Dozens of U.S. airmen in England assisted with an archaeological dig earlier this year aimed at finding the remains of an Army pilot lost there during World War II, and in the process helped shine a light on one of the war’s most ambitious and ill-fated secret operations against the Nazis.
The search for Army Air Forces Lt. John Wesley Fisher, of Peekskill, New York, led the airmen to a plot of land in Britain’s Suffolk district near the English Channel coast, where Senior Airman Wyatt Stephensen of the 100th Maintenance Squadron, 100th Air Refueling Wing, spent five days helping with the search.
Stephensen said he was mostly on shovel detail, digging up muck from the site to be run through sieves on the chance of finding evidence of Fisher or pieces of his plane.
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“It was a big honor to be able to look for his remains,” he…
