Site of WWII bomber crash being dug up in effort to bring US air crew home

US veterans have teamed up with the University of York in an effort to recover any human remains from the crash site so that they can be repatriated to America

Archaeologists are hoping to recover the remains of an American bomber crew, whose aircraft crashed at a site in Arundel in 1944 (Gareth Fuller/PA)

A team of American veterans are digging up a field in Sussex, England, where a bomber plane crashed during the Second World War in an effort to finally bring their fallen compatriots home.

In June 1944 – two weeks after Allied troops landed in France on D-Day – a B-24 Liberator was in a group conducting a bombing raid near Paris when it took severe damage from anti-aircraft fire.