From the Nov. 12, 2012, Northwest Suburban (Chicago) Daily Herald. AP.
Four men have unearthed pieces of a P-38 D Lightning fighter plane that crashed in a Michigan farm field. They used metal detectors after researching records in St. Clair County's Casco Township just east of Richmond.
The pilot of that plane was 2nd Lt. Al Voss of Elgin, Illinois, of the 94th Pursuit Squadron stationed at Selfridge Air Base in Michigan. Lt. Voss died after parachuting out of the plane that Oct. 15, 1941. Of interest, this was before Pearl Harbor, but shows the buildup of the U.S. before entry into World War II.
The searchers had to wait until the soybean crop in the field was harvested before their search could begin. They found pieces of metal with the same camouflage paint schemes on them as would have been used at the time.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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