A World War II spitfire has been dug from a peat bog in Inishowen

A World War II spitfire has been dug from a peat bog in Inishowen, Donegal. The pilot, who parachuted to safety, was 23-year-old Roland "Bud" Wolfe, an RAF officer from 133 "Eagle" Squadron, a unit entirely composed of Americans. He had come down in neutral Ireland and he was not sent back to his airbase, RAF Eglinton, now City of Derry Airport, in Northern Ireland just 13 miles away, but to Curragh Camp, County Kildare, 175 miles to the south. He was effectively prisoners of war.