Remains found in search for crew of British bomber shot down by Nazis

Salvage operation in Dutch waters finds remains presumed to be those of Arthur Smart, Charles Sprack and Raymond Moore

The remains of British airmen shot down by the Nazis over Dutch waters may have been discovered in a massive rescue operation.

With the help of a 15m national plane wreck rescue fund, the Dutch have started to sift the wreckage of the British Lancaster ED603, which never returned from a mass bombing mission targeting Bochum in Germany on 13 June 1943. Instead, this Pathfinder" that gave the lead to 503 bombers, was tracked as it headed home, shot down and crashed in the blue Dutch waters of the IJsselmeer with seven men aboard.