In the remote depths of the Pacific Ocean, beneath 200 feet of seawater, lay the sunken remains of a wartime tragedy: the wreck of the B-24D bomber nicknamed Heaven Can Wait and its 11-man crew, lost to combat more than eight decades ago. On March 11, 1944, anti-aircraft fire struck the plane near Papua New Guinea, its bombs detonating and sending the aircraft plummeting into the sea.
For decades, the crew was labeled “non-recoverable” — their remains listed among the countless missing in action. The names faded from headlines, but never from memory. Families held on, even as generations passed quietly, with just a name on a memorial to recall.
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