The Liberator in the Forest: How a Polish Historian Is Restoring Ten American Airmen to History
By: VBC | Published: 2026-07-16 18:40:12 | Source: veteransbreakfastclub.org
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By Todd DePastino
On December 17, 1944, hundreds of American bombers crossed Central Europe on a mission against Nazi Germany’s synthetic fuel industry. One of them, a B-24J Liberator known only by the number painted on its fuselage—“White 47”—never returned.
The airplane broke apart nearly five miles above Silesia and fell into a snowy forest near the village then called…
