Bring the Fallen Airmen Home
By David Sears
Air & Space Magazine
September 2015
On a cold day in April 2012, a team of historians, archaeologists, surveyors, forensic technicians, and police stood on a hillside near Allmuthen, Belgium. One of the team members was a handler for Buster, a Labrador retriever trained to detect the scent of cadavers. A U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 had crashed on the hill 68 years ago, and the team had begun excavating the site in the hope that Buster could detect the remains of the World War II bomber’s airmen.
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