Back in the mid '70s my sixth grade class was doing a project on the history of our area, a small town in southern Michigan. During the war, a military plane crashed on an area farm one foggy night. There's still a little memorial there, although the remains of the pilot were recovered. The farmer showed us what he said was the largest piece of the aircraft recovered..a mangled chunk of aluminum a couple of feet across. Somewhere there's a pic of my friend and I holding it, taken for a slide show that was part of our project.
The farmer said then that bits of wreckage still surfaced every spring when he plowed, but he said the engines were still buried some 20 feet down, as the plane went in vertically. This article gives some details, but says the plane was a Corsair..which would mean it only had a single engine.
http://www.hillsdalecounty.info/history0113.aspThe farmer gave us a lurid description of that night. He was a child at the time, but said that his mother was awakened by the crash, and when she went outside she saw flaming wreckage, smelled burnt flesh, and pieces of the pilot hanging in the trees (the tale may have been subject to a bit of embellishment over time, of course.)
Next time I'm visiting my hometown, I'll have to swing by and see if the property owners will let me photograph the memorial.
SN