- Welcome, everyone, to Wednesday Nite at the Lab. I'm Tom Zinnen. I work here at the UW Madison Biotechnology Center. I also work for UW Extension Cooperative Extension, and on behalf of those folks and our other co-organizers, Wisconsin Public Television, the Wisconsin Alumni Association, and the UW Madison Science Alliance, thanks again for coming to Wednesday Nite at the Lab. We do this every Wednesday night, 50 times a year. Tonight's a special occasion because it's December seventh, 2016. This is the 75th anniversary of the attacks on Pearl Harbor. And for that occasion, which was the entry of the United States into World War II, it's a special event to be able to have the topic that we have tonight. Pearl Harbor, granted, was in the Pacific and our talk tonight is from the European theater, but I think it's an appropriate way to mark the evening. We'll have four presenters tonight. I want to introduce first Leslie Eisenberg. She was born in New York City, went to high school in Long Island, got her undergraduate degree at SUNY New Paltz, and got her PhD at New York University. Second will be Charles Konsitzke. He's the associate director of the Biotechnology Center. He was born in La Crosse County, grew up near Camp Douglas, went to high school in Tomah, and got his undergraduate degree at UW La Crosse. And the first person to speak tonight will be Ryan Wubben. He was born in Champaign, Illinois, and grew up in Neenah. Then he went back to the University of Illinois to get a degree in archaeology. Then he came here to UW Madison to get his MD degree. He's one of the folks in charge of the Med Flight program at the School of Medicine and Public Health, and he's gonna start off our presentation tonight on “Finding Lieutenant Fazekas.” Please join me in welcoming Ryan Wubben to Wednesday Nite at the Lab.   [audience applauds]  - Thank you, Tom. Tonight I'll be starting off with the first series of slides. And basically what I'll be doing is I'll be setting the stage for what comes next and how we found ourselves in a cornfield in France. Now imagine, if you will, it is the spring of 1944. England stands alone against Germany. And this is the view that someone in England, an aviator in England, would see. Basically, the Germans control the entire European continental coastline from Norway all the way down to the Spanish/Franco border. You are a young 22-year-old. You're a pilot. You've trained over the last year. And this is your mount. This is a P-47 Thunderbolt. You have spent the last year training, basically starting out in essentially a Piper Cub and working your way up through all the various types of airplanes, to this, which is actually the biggest single engine fighter used by any of the air forces during World War II. It is a massive beast. Weighs about 20,000 pounds. And you'll see here in the corner, if it comes up, these are your weapons. And those will become important later on. There's four machine guns in each wing for a total of eight. It's a single engine airplane, single pilot. And the aircraft that we were looking for is this aircraft right here. But, overall, this is the situation. England stands alone, but everyone knows that there are plans afoot to invade the continent. Germany tried to invade England in the summer of 1940, which led to the Battle of Britain. And there were big plans afoot to go from France and invade England during the summer of 1940. The Battle of Britain put a stop to that. So the Germans had always assumed when they were making their plans that they were gonna invade England from this area up here, which is the Calais region. So the Germans had posted many units of their army up here in the Pas-de-Calais region of France and spilling over into Belgium. And there was a huge movement afoot to try and obscure where the actual invasion was gonna happen. Patton had, General Patton, as you may know, had phantom armies all set up in southern England with inflatable tanks and all sorts of spy craft was afoot to try and obscure where the actual invasion was gonna happen. Even to