In 2017 a team from the Defense Personnel Accounting Agency, Lund University, The National Park Service, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution excavated the nose section of the B24 Tulsamerican in search of the remains of three US servicemen missing in action since the crash in December 1943. The Tulsamerican lies in just over 40m of water off the island in Vis Croatia. This talk describes the mission, the men, the loss, the re-discovery, the excavation, and ultimately the return of one of America’s fallen heroes.