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Matteo La Boccia · Apr 3, 2012

Here is a article of Wise Lindsay about a crash site we find:

WWII airman's family receives surprise pieces of history - Houston Chronicle

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Lafitte Deux · Apr 3, 2012

Great work! Hope you have equal success in the future.

makewave · Apr 4, 2012

Way to represent what we do! Great job!

DCMatt · Apr 5, 2012

Wow! Great story! Well done Matteo!

My uncle, recently passed away, was a waist-gunner on a B-24 over Italy. He had some stories... I especially liked the one about taking a vote of crew members on whether or not to throw the "top secret" Norden bombsight out of their badly damaged plane in a effort to lighten the load. The vote was unanimous. They threw it out somewhere over German occupied Italy. He said they threw everthing that wasn't nailed down out through a huge flak hole in the side of the aircraft. The bomb sight was the last thing out. They made it safely back to base.

DCMatt

Metal Detecting Stuff · Apr 5, 2012

Matteo, I am so glad you found the family after all your hard work. We traded emails back in June of last year, and I tried to call the Martin family for you back then, but did not get a return call.

Thanks for all your persistence, you are a great example of how rewarding this hobby can be!

Wayne AKA Qkslvr