Luftwaffe wreck sites in Norway

tilde.org ^ | 18 March 2012 | Kjell Sørensen

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Saw this listed on another forum, http://www.militaryphotos.net

A gent has taken the time to gather info regarding downed aircraft.

Interesting stuff.

Luftwaffe wreck sites in Norway

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Even lists Allied crews that shot the Luftwaffe aircraft down.

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Another related website.

flyvrak© World War II Aircraft wreck sites in Norway & other countries

If you're a WWII and /or aviation buff, enjoy.

[elcid1970]

The more one learns about WWII, the more huge that war becomes.

All these Luftwaffe crashes in just one of several Nazi occupied countries. The Germans mostly owned Norway for more than four years.

Many crashes were mechanical failures, not combat related.

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I’ve clicked on them randomly, and yes, weather, fuel, mechanical as well as combat related crashes. Interesting all the same.

[piroque]

Must be nice to live in a free country where them leave machine guns lying around.

[elcid1970]

Uncanny resemblance to an American .50 cal M-2.

[rex regnum insanit]

Isn’t that a 20MM cannon?

[rex regnum insanit]

Isn’t that a 20MM cannon? You can’t tell scale from the photo.

[goodwithagun]

bookmark

[Travis McGee]

Back in 1982 I was able to dive on a couple of British and German destroyer wrecks near Narvik, Norway. They had some short but intense battles up there!

[Travis McGee]

This is me in 1999, in front of a Japanese plane on uninhabited Pagan Island, in the Northern Marianas. There were bunkers and war wrecks all over the place. Pagan had a small but well-located fighter plane base.

[PzLdr]

The Germans lost something like half of their destroyer fleet at Narvik in 1940. The loss contributed to Germany’s inability to invade England.

[fso301]

Looks like someone has been regularly cleaning and oiling it for the past ~70 years.

[Last Dakotan]

Norway is a beautiful place.

[Travis McGee]

Imagine what close-range slugfests those destroyer battles were!

Point-blank for their main guns, hemmed in by the fjords.

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Cool. I saw a show on tv about Truk lagoon. It's chock full of wrecks < 60 ships and 275 airplanes >.

The Navy should name ships after battles such as this, or warriors, not after politicians.

[PzLdr]

It was worse than that, for the Germans. There was a British battlecruiser/battleship [I believe the WARSPITE or RENOWN] involved. The Germans had no chance.

[2111USMC]

That one looks like a “fixer-upper”.

[tophat9000]

That is an m2 in the photo...its not german

[tophat9000]

And that is a Zero