Laumersheim, Germany, Dec. 15, 2012: Volunteers carry a piece of metal recovered from the site of a World War II plane crash outside Laumersheim. They believed the wreckage was that of the Lancaster ED 427, a British bomber that went down in April 1943, killing its seven-man crew in the crash. The volunteers carefully extracted any bone fragments found on the site and handed them over to the British authorities for identification.

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