The Los Angeles Times profiles an effort by servicemembers and an anthropologist to excavate the site of an April 9, 1944, crash of a B-24D Liberator in Mojave, Calif.—a crash that claimed all 10 Army Air Forces crew members. Amateur archeologists uncovered the first remains from the site in 2005. The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, wrapped up its investigation last month, sending the commingled remains to their lab for the identification process.
The first flight of the secretive B-21 bomber has slipped to mid-2022, but the program is moving along well, Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office director Randall Walden said in an exclusive interview. The second copy of the B-21, which will be used for structural testing, is now on the production…