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.
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
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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.
They recently found a preserved Russian pilot in his aircraft that crashed into a bog in 1943:
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.