If William Salo had miscalculated that day in the winter of 1945, it might have meant death for him and his student navigator. “It was like in a fog. I lost sight of the ground. The plane kept on dropping, but he didn’t say anything,” Salo said. As the qualified pilot of a twin-engine Anson training aircraft, Salo was responding to the directions of his student navigator. They found themselves in a fog bank and Salo kept waiting for the observer-in-training to give him directions through the fog.