Hopefully be respected as a war grave. "A Second World War bomber shot down by the Nazis with a British airman aboard has been found after 82 years. The Baltimore Bomber was discovered 61 metres beneath the Aegean Sea off the Greek island of Antikythera. The aircraft, part of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), crashed in December 1943 during a mission over the Mediterranean. Three crew members lost their lives in the attack. Leslie Norman Row, a 25-year-old navigator from Gravesend, Kent, was among those who perished. The British airman died alongside air gunners Colin William Walker of the RAAF and John Gartside of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Harry Green, president of the Gravesham and Ebbsfleet branch of the Royal British Legion, said the young airman "died in the name of his country". "He's given up his life, he's given up his future, and all his family," Green added. Row flew his final mission on December 3, 1943, tasked with photographing the Greek coast. The aircraft was attacked by two Messerschmitt Bf 109s, which delivered seven attacks and set fire to the port wing. The only survivor was Australian pilot William Alroy Hugh Horsley, who was captured by the Germans. After his release, Horsley described how he escaped the sinking aircraft but saw no one else emerge before it sank in deep water. For 81 years, the plane remained hidden until its discovery by AegeanTec, a Greek technical diving group, last year." World War Two bomber shot down with British hero onboard discovered after 82 years
