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Memorial to US airmen is unveiled (Belfast)

A memorial to 10 American airmen who died in a crash on Belfast's Cavehill during World War II has been unveiled. The B-17 bomber went down in heavy fog 62 years ago after losing its bearings on the way to Nutt's Corner airport.

A plinth was unveiled in Belfast Zoo, near the crash site, on Thursday as a decommissioned B-17 flew over.

A film of how one crewman's wedding ring was found at the site decades later and returned to his widow, Closing the Ring, is being made.

Read entire article at BBC News