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Col. Steven Byrum, 100th Air Refueling Wing commander, speaks to the gathered assembly at Ely Cathedral, Nov. 26, 2025. Ely Cathedral has partnered with the tribase area for the past 39 years to host a traditional service for U.S. service members during the Thanksgiving holiday. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Nash Truitt)

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Revd David Young, RAF Honington chaplain, leads a prayer at Ely Cathedral, Nov. 26, 2025. Ely Cathedral has partnered with the tribase area for the past 39 years to host a traditional service for U.S. service members during the Thanksgiving holiday. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Nash Truitt)

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Col. Steven Byrum, 100th Air Refueling Wing commander, speaks to the gathered assembly at Ely Cathedral, Nov. 26, 2025. Ely Cathedral has partnered with the tribase area for the past 39 years to host a traditional service for U.S. service members during the Thanksgiving holiday. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Nash Truitt)

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Sparky and friends read at CDC during Fire Prevention Week 2025

Sparky the Fire Dog entertains children at the child development center during Fire Prevention Week at RAF Mildenhall, England, Oct. 7, 2025. Sparky brought along some of his firefighter friends from the 100th Civil Engineer Squadron Fire Department who read fire-related stories to children in multiple classes, talked to them about fire safety, and gave out plastic fire helmets. (U.S. Air Force photo by Karen Abeyasekere)

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Sparky and friends read at CDC during Fire Prevention Week 2025

Sparky the Fire Dog and his firefighter friends from the 100th Civil Engineer Squadron Fire Department spend time with children at the child development center during Fire Prevention Week at RAF Mildenhall, England, Oct. 7, 2025. The firefighters read stories to children in multiple classes, talked to them about fire safety, and gave out plastic fire helmets. (U.S. Air Force photo by Karen Abeyasekere)

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Sparky and friends read at CDC during Fire Prevention Week 2025

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Joseph Baronak, 100th Civil Engineer Squadron Fire Department, reads to children at the child development center as Sparky the Fire Dog also listens and entertains his audience during Fire Prevention Week at RAF Mildenhall, England, Oct. 7, 2025. Firefighters read stories to children in multiple classes, talked to them about fire safety, and gave out plastic fire helmets. (U.S. Air Force photo by Karen Abeyasekere)

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A volunteer cleans aircraft parts found at a crash site in Essex, England, Sept. 23, 2025. In January 1944, U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd. Lt. Lester Lowry was flying a P-47 Thunderbolt out of RAF Bodney, Norfolk, on a training flight over Essex, when he was involved in an accident as the aircraft dove vertically at speed and crashed into a field. Lowry was the only person on the plane. (U.S. Air Force photo by Karen Abeyasekere)

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Canadian Army and Royal Canadian Air Force retired-Capt. Jocelyne Letain cleans aircraft parts found at a crash site in Essex, England, Sept. 23, 2025. In January 1944, U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd. Lt. Lester Lowry was flying a P-47 Thunderbolt out of RAF Bodney, Norfolk, on a training flight over Essex, when he was involved in an accident as the aircraft dove vertically at speed and crashed into a field. Lowry was the only person on the plane and according to local residents at the time, did not have the opportunity to bail out. (U.S. Air Force photo by Karen Abeyasekere)

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U.S. Air Force Airmen from RAF Mildenhall show a few of the almost-5,000 artefacts which have been discovered during a six-week archaeological recovery on private farmland in Essex, England, Sept. 23, 2025. The area is a crash site of a World War II U.S. Army Air Forces P-47 Thunderbolt which went down Jan. 26, 1944, during a training flight from RAF Bodney, Norfolk. The aim of the recovery, led by Cotswold Archaeology in partnership with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, was to locate evidence from the aircraft and, if possible, recover remains related to its young pilot – 2nd Lt. Lester Lowry – for repatriation to the United States. (U.S. Air Force photo by Karen Abeyasekere)

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U.S. Air Force Airmen from RAF Mildenhall show a few of the almost-5,000 artefacts which have been discovered during a six-week archaeological recovery on private farmland in Essex, England, Sept. 23, 2025. The area is a crash site of a World War II U.S. Army Air Forces P-47 Thunderbolt, which went down Jan. 26, 1944, during a training flight from RAF Bodney, Norfolk. The aim of the recovery, led by Cotswold Archaeology in partnership with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, was to locate evidence from the aircraft and, if possible, recover remains related to its young pilot – 2nd Lt. Lester Lowry – for repatriation to the United States. (U.S. Air Force photo by Karen Abeyasekere)

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Volunteers working with Cotswold Archaeology, in partnership with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency are reflected in the sunglasses of a U.S. Air Force Airman from RAF Mildenhall, as they work together sieving earth as part of an archaeological recovery on private farmland in Essex, England, Sept. 23, 2025. Airmen from RAFs Mildenhall, Lakenheath, Feltwell, Molesworth, Croughton and Welford volunteered over a six-week period to assist in locating evidence from a P-47 Thunderbolt crash in January 1944. The operation also aims to recover remains related to the P-47 pilot, 2nd Lt. Lester Lowry. (U.S. Air Force photo by Karen Abeyasekere)

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A U.S. Air Force Airman assigned to RAF Mildenhall sieves through from a specific, surveyed area on private farmland in Essex, England, Sept. 23, 2025. Almost 5,000 artefacts and small aircraft parts relating to the crash have been discovered by archaeologists, in partnership with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Airmen from RAFs Mildenhall, Lakenheath, Feltwell, Molesworth, Croughton and Welford volunteered over a six-week period to investigate the crash site of World War II U.S. Army Air Forces pilot, 2nd Lt. Lester Lowry, and his aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Karen Abeyasekere)

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Local civilian volunteers Mark Ratcliff, right, and Gary Maddocks, wet sieve earth on private farmland as part of an investigation of a crash site of a World War II U.S. Army Air Forces P-47 Thunderbolt in Essex, England, Sept. 23, 2025. Almost 5,000 artefacts and small aircraft parts relating to the cockpit, fuselage, wings, engines and machine guns have been discovered by archaeologists, in partnership with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. U.S. Air Force Airmen from around the United Kingdom volunteered over a six-week period with a variety of fieldwork including metal detecting, surveying using geophysics, and washing and sorting finds. The operation also aims to recover remains related to the P-47 pilot, 2nd Lt. Lester Lowry. (U.S. Air Force photo by Karen Abeyasekere)

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U.S. Air Force Andrew McCaffrey, left, 100th Air Refueling Wing, and Staff Sgt. Austin Newkirk, 100th Civil Engineer Squadron, dry sieve earth from a specific, surveyed area on private farmland in Essex, England, Sept. 23, 2025. They were part of a team of U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army volunteers from RAFs Mildenhall, Lakenheath, Feltwell, Croughton, Welford and RAF Molesworth, working alongside local community volunteers and U.K. military and veterans from Operation Nightingale. (U.S. Air Force photo by Karen Abeyasekere)

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U.S. Air Force Capt. Ian Kline, 351st Air Refueling Squadron, dry sieves earth from a specific, surveyed area on private farmland in Essex, England, Sept. 23, 2025. Kline was part of a team of U.S. Air Force volunteers from RAFs Mildenhall and other bases around the U.K. working alongside local community volunteers, U.S. Army soldiers, U.K. military and veterans from Operation Nightingale, and a retired veteran from the Canadian Army and Royal Canadian Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo by Karen Abeyasekere)

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Volunteers work to sieve earth at the crash site of a P-47 Thunderbolt, which went down during a training flight in January 1944, from a specific, forensically surveyed area on private farmland in Essex, England, Sept. 23, 2025. Almost 5,000 artefacts and small aircraft parts relating to the crash have been discovered by archaeologists, in partnership with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Active-duty and retired U.S., Canadian and U.K. military volunteers, along with local community volunteers, helped locate evidence of the aircraft over a six-week period, as part of an investigation of the crash site of World War II U.S. Army Air Forces pilot, 2nd Lt. Lester Lowry, and his aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Karen Abeyasekere)

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A box holds some of the almost 5,000 artefacts and small aircraft parts from a P-47 Thunderbolt which came down during a training flight Jan. 26, 1944, at the crash site on private farmland in Essex, England, Sept. 23, 2025. The finds were discovered by archaeologists and volunteers in partnership with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Volunteers from the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, Canada and the Ministry of Defence’s Operation Nightingale program, together with the local community members, worked together over a six-week period to investigate the crash site of World War II U.S. Army Air Forces pilot, 2nd Lt. Lester Lowry, and his aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Karen Abeyasekere)

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Team Mildenhall hosts their first Warrior Fitness Challenge

U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. James Wall, 100th Air Refueling Wing command chief, carries a water hose across a field during the Warrior Fitness Challenge at RAF Mildenhall, England, Oct. 3, 2025. This station required two people to carry a fire hose across a soccer field and back again. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Katie Mullikin)

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Team Mildenhall hosts their first Warrior Fitness Challenge

Team Mildenhall members gather for a group photo during the Warrior Fitness Challenge at RAF Mildenhall, England, Oct. 3, 2025. The challenge promoted individual fitness and camaraderie through testing physical strength and teamwork to complete different stations set up throughout the installation to demonstrate a warrior’s ethos. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Katie Mullikin)

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Team Mildenhall hosts their first Warrior Fitness Challenge

Team Mildenhall members build a deployment pallet during the Warrior Fitness Challenge at RAF Mildenhall, England, Oct. 3, 2025. This station tested the Airmen’s readiness and knowledge on how to secure a pallet of deployment equipment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Katie Mullikin)

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