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Let's hope they send the bodies home so their next of kin can no longer wonder what had happened to them and give them a proper burial with full military honors.
Huh, that's wild, that they just found it.
Steve
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Odd indeed. I can see a tank buried in a bog or a plane/ship underwater but it's strange that a bomber would go unnoticed for so long. I suppose though that it was probably just a pile of twisted metal.
It said that villagers found it immediately after the crash. I guess it was just lost to history.
What's even eerie about it is the bodies were carbonized - even one was still in the tree strapped in his parachute.
Plane on fire, difficult to find exit, long way down... Terrible way to go.
-Another link:
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/flying-coffin-wwii-wreck-found-141013.htm
CN - I checked out the other links on that page you provided. Nice!
I think you guys might misunderstand the story. I think what happened was that the crash was discovered right away, bodies recovered etc. and then abandoned.
Years later fragments were rediscovered. That's my take.
Modeling is an excuse to buy books.
They recently found a preserved Russian pilot in his aircraft that crashed into a bog in 1943:
xmb.stuffucanuse.com/.../viewthread.php
Too many models to build, not enough time in a lifetime!!
Bogs have been known for thousands of years to have remarkable preservatives properties to slow/prevent massive decaying of bodily objects. Finding a WW2 aircraft that crashed in bogs with pilots still inside makes it even more remarkable.
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