In 1996 to my astonishment Remy sent me pieces of my father's P-47!
He had pin-pointed the crash site through US Air Force records and an eye-witness, then had visited the site and dug until he found a cowl flap, several pieces of aluminum tubing, shards of plexiglas, a piece of electrical cable, a 50 caliber shell, a buckle from the safety harness, and assorted small pieces of twisted metal.
In his words: "Could you imagine that this little bit of metal has been waiting for 51 years and six months in the ground before to become a modest but symbolic and precious keepsake of George Rarey's plane..."