[exit82]

How did the plane come to be buried? Where the wings still attached? Did it crash in a bog? Local folks seemed to know about the location but only recently revealed it?

Any pictures?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[taxed2death]

"Local folks seemed to know about the location but only recently revealed it? '

That's the way it sounded to me too.

WTF?

[lizol]

Badge of the pilot


More remains

[lizol]

According to articles I found in Polish:

The crew

Arnold R. Blynn,
George A. Chapman,
Harold L. Brown,
C. B. Wylie,
Arthur G. W. Liddell,
Frederick G. Wenham,
Kenneth J. Ashmore,

The plane was supposed to drop their cargo near Skiernewice (central Poland, west of Warsaw, 20 km. from the town where I live), but it was shot down before managed to get here.

Plane crashed into mud.
All the remains of the crew members, that the locals found right after the crash had been collected and buried. After the war they were exhumed and buried again in the military part of the Rakowicki Cemetry in Krakow.

Now the historians found parts of the plane (including wings, 2 Rolls-Royce Merlin engines and many more), remains of the crew members, their equipment and personal belongings.

How they found it?

Many people thought, that after the war communist authorities removed the parts of the plane and hid them somewhere.
Recently historians from the Warsaw Uprising Museum in Warsaw contacted some witness, who said, that the communist couldn't manage to take them out, so they left them where they were.