Several USAF and United Kingdom Royal Air Force aircraft on Friday flew over the site of a 1944 B-17G crash in Sheffield, England, thanks to decades of work by a local man who was a boy when he saw the Flying Fortress go down.
On Feb. 22, 1944, the B-17G, named Mi Amigo, was flying back to Chelveston after getting hit by anti-aircraft fire during a daylight raid in Denmark. The aircraft couldn't make it, and began to go down near Sheffield. On the ground, 8-year-old Tony Foulds was with his friends in a schoolyard in Sheffield when the bomber broke through the clouds and began to come down toward the field.
