Deep within the forest close to Lake Anten, near Alingsås, Sweden, is a unique monument made of a pile of stones and a plane propeller, with American names of military personnel. What happened here?, you might think. The answer is from way back in 1944. That year, on October 19, 6 American C-87 airplanes took off from Leuthars Air Base in Scotland heading for Bromma Airport in Stockholm as part of Operation Sonnie, a secret Allied intelligence operation over neutral Swedish territory. During the flight, one of the planes suddenly…
