Over 73000 Americans are still missing from the Second World War. The majority of them will never be found, or recovered. Their remains are entombed in ships,submarines and aircraft wrecks at the bottom of the worldʼs oceans and hostile, remote locations. The rest of them, the ones that were killed during ground combat, or where shot down over land, potentially could be located and recovered. Almost seventy years later, their families still hope and wait. Now, read about the real-life story of twenty-two year old Californian, First Lieutenant Paul W. Mazal. A P-47 Thunderbolt pilot with the 406th Fighter Group, 513th Fighter Squadron, Paul Mazal was shot down by ground fire and killed on 19 March 1945. Sixty years later, on 27 August 2005, his remainswere recovered by a team of civilian aviation archaeologist led by the author. By Christmas 2005 Paul had been returned to his family.



The Author is currently serving as a Sergeant First Class in the US Army as a Military Intelligence professional. He has deployed to Afghanistan, Bosnia and Kuwait and after serving over nineteen years is currently looking forward to near retirement. He is also a twenty-two year veteran of a marriage which has increased the world population by three. His stepson Lucas, also serves in the US Army. The only child of a British Royal Air Force (RAF) soldier and a German mother, Danny spent his formative years in England and Germany. He developed his passion for archaeology when his retired father, a hobby archaeologist, took him along excavating Roman sites during the mid to late seventies. In 1979, he researched and dug his first crash-site. Since 2004, Danny has been involved in the recovery of eight missing aviators, one of them being thesubject of this book. He is the founder of Missing Aviator Research/Recovery Team.