Expedition Unknown

America's MIA Heroines follows host Josh Gates as he investigates wartime disappearances. In this episode he journeys to Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa, to locate a missing World War II American military plane that vanished decades ago and its 18‑member crew.

America's MIA Heroines is a television programme delivered as an episodic series that concentrates on the unresolved cases of American service personnel who disappeared in conflict. Each installment follows a dedicated investigation, aiming to shed light on the circumstances surrounding those losses and to bring the stories of the missing into public view. In this particular episode, host Josh Gates travels to Côte d’Ivoire, a nation on the western edge of Africa, to begin a search for an American military aircraft that vanished during the Second World War. His mission is to locate the lost plane, which has remained missing for decades, and to uncover any clues that might explain its disappearance. The aircraft in question was a United States military plane that disappeared with a full complement of eighteen crew members aboard. The loss of those eighteen individuals has never been resolved, leaving the story without closure. The episode centres on identifying the fate of both the aircraft itself and the men who were on board. Throughout the investigation, Gates examines the surrounding environment and follows any leads that emerge from the local area, hoping to piece together what transpired on the day the plane went missing. By tracing the aircraft’s last known route and gathering information about the crew, the episode strives to bring a measure of resolution to this long‑standing wartime mystery.