A team of American veterans are digging up a field in Sussex, United Kingdom, 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. Despite its condition, the pilots and crew managed to nurse the aircraft back to the English coast, but for reasons unknown it crashed in a farmer’s field near Arundel, West Sussex. Seven of the airmen aboard managed to bail out of the stricken plane but three are believed to have been killed after trying to make an emergency landing. Now 77 years later, U.S. veterans with the American Veterans Archaeological Recovery (AVAR) have teamed up with the University of York in an effort to …