Members of the 467th Bomb Group Association were hosted by volunteers known as the Pathfinders, led by 71-year-old Ivan Barnard, whose work has uncovered long-forgotten buildings and walkways hidden beneath decades of overgrowth.

Some visitors were moved to tears as they stood in the same places where their fathers and grandfathers lived and worked more than 80 years ago.

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