More than 70 years after their B-26G Marauder was shot down near Seffern, Germany, a crew of airmen is coming home, the Defense Department POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Tuesday Aug. 11. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. William P. Cook and a crew of five airmen took off from Saint Quentin, France, on Dec. 23, 1944, to bomb an enemy-held bridge in Eller, Germany. The plane crashed near the Germany-Belgium border, but Army Graves Registration Command was unable to find the aircraft and crew after the war, according to the release. The site of the crash was first located in 2006, and after excavations in 2012 and 2013, Cook and three crew members were returned to their fam?ilies in the US and Canada for military burials over the last year. Flight Officer Arthur LeFavre of Red Bank, N.J., and SSgt. Ward Swalwell Jr. of Chicago will be buried with full military honors this month in Arlington National Cemetery, Va., as will other recovered remains representing the crew.
Celebrating 100 Years of Liquid-Fueled Rockets
March 11, 2026
March 16, 2026, marks 100 years since Dr. Robert H. Goddard launched the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket. Over the past century, new and ever more capable liquid-fueled rockets have literally propelled humanity into space. Why liquid-fueled rockets?