Missing WWII fighter plane is FOUND after 80 years
A fighter plane that vanished in a daring raid on Italy – just days before the allies invaded – has been found, solving a mystery that’s endured since the Second World War.
Warren Singer, a US airman, disappeared with his P-38 Lightning on August 25, 1943, during an attack on Italian airfields near Foggia, in the east of the country.
The mission sought to blunt Italy’s aerial response to the coming landings, and was a great success – destroying 65 enemy planes, at the cost of seven P-38s.
But 2nd Lt Singer never reached his target, and air force records show he was last seen flying near Manfredonia, a town 22 miles east of Foggia.
Now, 80 years later, divers have found the wreckage of Singer’s plane at a depth of 12 metres (40ft) beneath the Gulf of Manfredonia.
Singer, who was just 22, was survived by his wife Margaret, who he’d married five months earlier, and who later gave birth to their daughter, Peggy, in January 1944.
Reacting to the discovery of the plane, grandson Dave Clark said: ‘Warren is a hero to us all, and we love him.
‘He was a very young man with love, hope, and dreams.
‘One of the really amazing things about the story is that Warren has 12 descendants.
‘We are all alive because of the very short time that that Margaret and Warren had together.
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