Boy finds WWII plane with pilot's remains in cockpit

http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/irresistible/boy-finds-wwii-plane-with-pilots-remains-in-cockpit/3841 ^ | 8 Mar 17 | JUDITH VONBERG

[BBell]

[PLMerite]

"One prophylactic. Soiled."

Frank Oz, The Blues Brothers

[Does so]

The TIME/Life account of WW2 writes that the Nazis over-ran Denmark in three hours.

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[Dawgreg]

It’s still cute anyway........

[Dawgreg]

WOW.....what a find.

[hanamizu]

The TIME/Life account of WW2 writes that the Nazis over-ran Denmark in three hours.

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I’ve read that the Nazi invasion of Denmark was a bunch of German soldiers who crossed the border in civilian clothes, spread out though the small nation, and at a certain time, took off their overcoats and conquered Denmark firing few if any shots. That said, Denmark was the only conquered nation that actively tried to protect its Jewish population and insisted on inspecting the camps where Jewish Danes were interned.

[Western Phil]

One of my earliest memories is visiting the site of a somewhat similar situation: http://www.nebraskaaircrash.com/crashsites/daykin1.html

Bruning Army Airfield was just over the horizon from the farm where I was growing up. Most every day the training P47s would fly over and do practice dog fights. Whenever my siblings and I heard airplanes, we would run out of the house or stop working and watch the action. One day a flight of B17s came over and the P47s used them as the targets. One misjudged and clipped the tail off of one of the B17s. He pretty much augured in. The action was 3-4 miles to the south. I didn’t see this happen, but my older brothers did, #2 (since deceased) claimed he saw it from the seat of the beckhaus.

A few days later we loaded into the Model A and toured the crash sites. We did not go up to the fuselage of the B17 since there were rumors that there were military guards there. I remember seeing a B17 engine sitting near the road in the middle of a burned spot in a ripe wheat field.

The P47 was in a deep round hole which contained water and oil. I don’t remember seeing much in the way of airplane parts.

We never knew if the P47 was retrieved or if it was still in the ground.

There is a maxim that you cannot find anything that is underground unless you know where it is.

In the 90s, when #1 brother and I were back on the farm I had use of the Geophex GEM-1, a hand portable mapping metal detector which can be best described as a very low frequency ground penetrating radar. This particular instrument required spot readings on grid points and for 5’ grid spacing coverage was about one hour per acre. Since the instrument was relatively sensitive, To optimize the use of our limited time, I made an engineering decision to go to a 10’ grid over the area where I remembered the hole to be. We did not find the airplane, but did find parts, one being a piece of 1/2 Plexiglas.

It seems that the NebraskaAirCrash.com people had better “luck”.

[AnalogReigns]

GERMANS participated in Pearl Harbor? What is that photo of?

[Sirius Lee]

Bf-109. Just sayin’

[tophat9000]

That just German Ju87 Stukas photoshopped on to the Japanese Pearl Harbor photo below

[AnalogReigns]

If a German soldier died in a hospital,the Nazi regime would send a box full of ashes to the family, with a note thanking them for their sacrifice.... I do NOT think they treated their dead like the US Army did.