Abilene WWII Veteran Reunited With Lost Plane
The recovered tail section will be housed at the Texas Air Museum near Lubbock.
An Abilene World War Two veteran is reunited with a piece of the aircraft he was flying when it was shot down over France 70 years ago.
In January of 1944, Lieutenant Charles Screws was flying his P-47 Thunderbolt over France while escorting a bomber. After being struck by German fire, he was forced to crash land his plane in a field.
“I dug in there and waited until night time,” Lt. Charles Screws said. “I buried myself into some brush and everything.”
With the help of a French family, Screws managed to escape German occupied France and survived the war.
70 years later, a now 93-years-old Screws found a piece of his P-47 left behind in France arriving to his doorstep in Abilene.
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