"The Amazing Discovery Of A Luftwaffe FW190 In A Forest" Topic
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| Tango01 | 15 Feb 2021 10:36 p.m. PST |
…Clearing Outside St Petersburg "Imagine going for a walk in the woods and coming across a World War II German war plane! Well, just such a plane was discovered in a forest near the Russian city of St Petersburg (then called Leningrad) in 1989. The plane was a Focke-Wulf 190, and it was the main fighter used by the German Luftwaffe (air force). This particular FW190 was built in April 1943 in a factory in Bremen. Who was the pilot? His name was Paul Ratz. He was victorious in several air battles and survived three crashes. His plane came down behind enemy lines…"
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| Huscarle | 16 Feb 2021 1:01 a.m. PST |
I recollect back in the 1970s a German bomber (with crew & bombload) was found in the woods behind my grandmother's house.
I was only a nipper, but I wasn't allowed to go into that private wood and I was narked that I couldn't have found it, ah the follies of childhood. |
Tgerritsen  | 16 Feb 2021 10:42 a.m. PST |
Makes you wonder what aircraft there still might be out there waiting to be discovered. |
| Tango01 | 16 Feb 2021 12:03 p.m. PST |
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ponders nirvana.
