One of JFK's brothers- Lt Joe Kennedy Jr- was also killed flying a B24 in this programme. "Archaeologists are desperately trying to locate the remains of a World War II hero who was killed during a top-secret mission. Lieutenant John Fisher saved an entire village by sacrificing his own when he steered a malfunctioning and out-of-control 'kamikaze' bomber away from their home. In doing so, the brave airman had no time to jump out of the aircraft - packed with 22,000lbs of explosives - which eventually descended into a fiery blaze near Watling Wood, Suffolk. Following his heroic act, the remains of the brave 21-year-old soldier were never found. Now - nearly 80 years later - a team from Cotswold Archaeology have been commissioned by the US Defense/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) to find evidence of the tragedy. At the time of his death, Lt Fisher had been a part of the secretive Operation Aphrodite. In an effort to counter the German V1 and V2 rockets that brought devastation to south east England in 1944 the Allies experimented with their own flying bomb. This involved aging B-17 bomber planes being stripped back, loaded with explosives and flown towards a target. A crew of two were meant to bail out leaving a 'mother' aircraft to guide the empty plane down towards V1 and V2 launch sites using a radio remote control. As well as V1 and V2 launch sites in northern France and Belgium, Operation Aphrodite was also aimed at destroying German U-boat pens. However on the fateful day of August 4, 1944, one of the flying bombs malfunctioned after taking to the skies from RAF Fersfield in Norfolk. When the aircraft began to spiral out of control, the young father pushed his co-pilot, Sgt Elmer Most, out of the plane when his parachute caught in the hatch door. The airman was spotted at the controls of the plane mere moments before it crashed in the woodland. The DPAA - a US task-force who is responsible for locating many of its 87,000 killed in conflicts who remain undiscovered has asked UK-based archaeology team for help." Hunt for WWII hero airman's remains who steered malfunctioning 'flying bomb' away from village to save thousands of lives | Daily Mail Online
