In June 2013, I was contacted by the community of Manhay, Belgium, regarding a metal detecting permit in the area. An elderly local, Victor Jansen, had witnessed a plane crash during the Battle of the Bulge and sought help identifying the aircraft and its crew. My son Tom and I, equipped with metal detectors and shovels, eagerly began our search at the crash site in the meadows of Laos.
Among our finds was a fragment of a Norden bomb site, a critical piece of World War II technology.
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