…there appears stories like this one, found on CNN.com and written by Andreas Preuss, involving a WWII airplane restoration, and…mystery!

WWII-Era Plane Mystery: Who Are Eva and Edith?

I don’t want to ruin the whole story (you really should click the link and read it), but the I suppose I will:

When a P-47 Thunderbolt in the process of being restored was disassembled, the signatures of two women, Eva and Edith, was found written in a grease pencil inside the airplane’s wing.  Likely these signatures were from two of the women who worked on the airplane when it was first assembled back in 1944 in the plant in Indiana where the aircraft was known to have been built.

There’s not much more to the story than that.

And yet its a wonderful story, in my opinion, as well as a beautiful link to our past.  72 years ago these two women, whom the people behind the restoration hope to eventually identify, likely worked at the Indiana plant where this aircraft was originally put together and signed their names on a part of the plane which, very likely, would never have been seen by anyone…that is, until the restoration process was initiated.

Who exactly were Eva and Edith?  Did they have a pleasant life following the war?  Did they live to a rip old age and get to see the world change around them…and could they still be alive?

One wonders…and hopes for the very best for these two ladies who, in their way, helped the war effort.