When investigators examined the contents of the grave, they found an item preserved within the flight jacket.
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A letter.
Wrapped carefully in oilcloth.
Addressed to her son.
The letter was fragile but legible.
It confirmed what her family had never known:
She had been conscious.
She had been thinking of Robert.
She had spent her final moments writing to him.
For seventy years, that message remained hidden beneath the forest floor.
A Secret Program Revealed
As Daniel Whitmore continued his investigation, he uncovered records that had never been publicly acknowledged.
They pointed to the involvement of the Office of Strategic Services—the precursor to the modern Central Intelligence Agency.
Within those records was a reference to a classified initiative.
A program that recruited female pilots for covert operations over Nazi-occupied Europe.
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Evelyn Whitmore was one of them.
She had not been on a routine ferry mission.
She had been flying a covert combat assignment.
The Cost of Secrecy
The program was highly classified.
So much so that its existence was never officially acknowledged.
According to the records, five women had been recruited for these missions.
All five had died within a matter of months.
And in each case, their records were altered or erased.
