October 1944, World War II. Aeronautical engineer John Thompson's plane crashed in the mountains of Albania, leaving his family no prints about his fate. Just last March 9, Monday, a wedding ring of this pilot was brought home to his family after 70 long years.
Dorothy Webster, 93, Thompson's sister said, according to Yahoo News that his brother came home because of the ring that was unexpectedly returned to the family.
The ring came in a package enclosed in a small box, including a stone from where the plane crashed and there is also a piece, which proved the plane's wreckage.
Alan Webster, 63 and a nephew of Thompson revealed to the Business Insider that what they knew about his uncle that time is that he was serving and deployed to Libya and Italy and nothing more. Just when Thompson introduced his wife to his family, he flew and the family did not hear anything more about him. The airman's wife Joyce, remained hopeful to see his husband again, but after two years, he remarried and died of cancer at the age of 70.
The Royal Air Force Halifax bomber crashed in the mountains of Albania, a capital city of Tirana and it was only year 1660 when the mystery of plane's fate was discovered.
A villager named Jaho Cala was chopping woods when he found the ring on a finger and there were engraved initials on it.
"My father carefully kept this ring and before dying begged me to find its owner," a statement of Cala that is why he extended so much effort just to find the owner of the ring.
In order to grant his father's last wish, Cala contacted the British embassy to help him find the owner of the ring and the process begun.