Flashback to October 1978: Discovery of aircraft gives family closure
For 37 years after his final flight from a wartime Shropshire air base teenage pilot John Toplis Carr was officially classed as "missing presumed dead."

But despite his name appearing on the Runnymede Memorial, officialdom had a good idea where 19-year-old Leading Aircraftman Carr really was.
And on October 27, 1978, he was at last found, still with his aircraft, buried in a Shropshire peat bog.
Sadly his mother had died without realising her greatest wish, that her son would one day be traced.
Carr's remains were recovered and one of the RAF's disappeared pilots was finally given a decent burial.
The poignant story of one of the war's last lost victims begins on April 10, 1941. Carr, who before enlisting in the RAF had been an articled clerk with a law firm in Eastbourne, was training at RAF Tern Hill to be a pilot, and his task that day was a solo cross country flight.
The exercise successfully completed, he was preparing to land back at Tern Hill in the early afternoon when his Miles Master aircraft was in a mid-air collision with another Miles Master, piloted by another 19-year-old trainee, which had just taken off.
What happened next is recounted in a book, "Finding The Fallen," by Andy Saunders.