German Messerschmitt found in Denmark

[Gamma_Joe]

A kid listened to his grandpa's WWII story ... went out with a metal detector ... and found a Messerschmitt:

http://www.newser.com/story/239475/boy-with-metal-detector-hits-wwii-era-jackpot.html?utm_source=iheart&utm_medium=referral

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39196106

Wow!

Joe

 

[sddavid]

Wow! He should get a top grade for that!

 

[Doc Holliday]

"Dad and son had headed out with a metal detector, and when the device started beeping, they borrowed an excavator and began digging deep into the earth. Starting at around 13 feet down, they started turning up pieces of the wreckage of the Bf 109 model."

13 feet down? I want one of THOSE metal detectors, and I want it to run on a single AA battery.

 

[lytle78]

I read Danish, and according to 'danish news outlets, It was on a training flight, andcrashed into a bog. Judging by the depth of the wreckage, probably in a steep dive - perhaps a classic "graveyard spiral" like young Kennedy got into. The farm family of course knew that it had happened, no recovery of the sunken and buried plane was done, late in the war and all. Post war, the bog was drained and the wreckage was below the new surface of the field. The detector picked up near-surface bits and they dug,the whole thing up

 

[NRazor]

Great Story! Thanks for sharing.