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Wilson was never close to her Aunt Ruth, given the family rift over the widow's remarriage, but she got hooked on the whereabouts of Carl Hoenshell. She developed an online search seeking details about his death - dubbed 'The Carl Squadron' - and employed the expertise of military researchers. Eventually, she found her way to a newspaper reporter in Belgrade and a young financial analyst from Michigan working near Sofia, Bulgaria.

She asked for their help. Their research led to a barn in the remote Bulgarian countryside. Wilson, a 50-year-old businesswoman who grew up in Owosso but later moved to Jacksonville, Fla., traveled to that barn. Her older brother came, too. He brought his metal detector.

They paid the farmer to remove the barn floor. Hoenshell, they knew through their own research, had completed his bombing run over the Romanian oil fields but had circled back to help another U.S. Pilot with a failing engine. On that return trip, German bombers opened fire on him, and Hoenshell, out of ammunition, circled madly to escape. According to a witness Wilson helped find - a farmer's son who was 17 years old at the time and saw the dog fight over his parents' land - Hoenshell's plane attempted to land in a pasture, its engine on fire. Within seconds, it rolled into trees and blew apart. Decades later, underneath the barn, the descendants started to dig.

Soon, they found what they would learn was the nose strut assembly of a P-38. The Army then conducted an official excavation.

Wilson was in Bulgaria when Army researchers found Carl Hoenshell's ID bracelet. It was battered, but bore the letters, 'oenshell,' his identification number and 'Ruth' on the back. Wilson called her aunt as soon as she heard. Back in Owosso, it was 2 a.m. 'I said, `Aunt Ruth, I hate to get you up so early, but I've got some tremendous news for you,' Wilson recalls. 'Did you know Carl wore a bracelet?

Better yet, it has your name on it.' Weeks was alone in her bedroom. Her second marriage had fallen apart years before.

She listened to her niece, with whom she had grown closer through this search, and the two cried and prayed together long-distance. The war in Kosovo interrupted the search for more artifacts, but in 2002, the Army tried again. This time, they found a significant portion of remains and, deep in the soil, a perfectly preserved wedding ring. It was a simple gold band with beading on the edges, part of a matching set. The other was tucked inside a cedar chest in Ruth Weeks' bedroom.