After 14 years living in his rural New York home, Jason Hurdle thought he knew every inch of his property.
So he was left stunned to discover a previously hidden crawlspace while cleaning his Waterloo garage back in July.
However, his wonder only increased after he plucked a set of files marked ‘secret’ from inside the dusty compartment.
The 300-page tranche contained appeared to contain first-hand accounts from World War II American Prisoners of War.
Hurdle, 74, took the documents to a local library which referred them to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) who came to collect them.
It was subsequently confirmed that
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