For starters I don’t read/speak Polish but here is the link anyways..
http://wiadomosci.o2.pl/?s=512&t=7862
if its been covered somewhere please post the thread as i couldn’t find anything when i searched!
By: Cees Broere - 3rd December 2006 at 10:52
Very sobering to see that destruction.
May they rest in peace
Cees
By: zTango - 3rd December 2006 at 10:41
got another link with more pictures of the recovery:
look at the size of the dig!! 😮
By: zTango - 1st December 2006 at 22:02
forwarded from another friend.. pictures of the recovery
http://www.tarnow.pl/galeria/galeria_924/index.php
By: VoyTech - 28th November 2006 at 13:55
ah thanks guys.. i tried one of the translators online and pulled something along the lines that it might be restored to airworthy.. something to look forward to i guess!
The exact quote is:
The aeroplane crashed into marshy area. The fuselage penetrated into the ground 2-4 metres deep. It has been buried there for 60 years. But this seemed to be a good prognostic for the Halifax remains. It was hoped that the machine may have been preserved in quite good condition. Has this proved true, there would be a chance of reconstructing world’s fourth Halifax survivor. […] Unofficially, the newspaper managed to find out that in a huge dig out the historians managed to locate engine parts, pieces of the skin structure, undercarriage legs, and other remains. ‘We have found what we were looking for, but in worse condition than we had hoped for. Additionally, we have found something we had not expected, something very precious for us’ said Dr Piotr Åšliwowski [of the Warsaw Uprising Museum].
No mention of restoring to airworthy, and I think even the mention of a chance of reconstructing world’s fourth Halifax survivor is a case of typical newspaper exagerration. When the Museum unveiled their Liberator mock-up earlier this year, many journalists described it as a restored example.
Also interesting how they’ve also mentioned the flight crew (as Arnold R. Blynn, George A. Chapman, Harold L. Brown, C. B. Wylie, Arthur G. W. Liddell, Frederick G. Wenham and Kenneth J. Ashmore) i’ve put the names down to help future forum searches.
The names are said to have been quoted from a memorial plaque in a nearby shrine at Odporyszow.
By: zTango - 28th November 2006 at 13:37
ah thanks guys.. i tried one of the translators online and pulled something along the lines that it might be restored to airworthy.. something to look forward to i guess!
Also interesting how they’ve also mentioned the flight crew (as Arnold R. Blynn, George A. Chapman, Harold L. Brown, C. B. Wylie, Arthur G. W. Liddell, Frederick G. Wenham and Kenneth J. Ashmore) i’ve put the names down to help future forum searches.
By: VoyTech - 28th November 2006 at 11:41
Your translation is basically right, although the “Oak Forest” is in fact Dabrowa, a town in Southern Poland. The recovery work is done by people from the Warsaw Uprising Museum. The Museum already has a natural size wooden mock up of a Liberator, which includes recovered parts of one that crashed in Poland in August 1944. The Museum was also responsible for bringing Sally B to Warsaw last August.
By: haroldmulder - 27th November 2006 at 23:17
Using a translation program it looks like it talks about Halifax as you mentioned crewed by 5 Canadians and 2 British that crashed in Oak Forest. Parts have been recovered and they will hold a press conference next week in the Forest to detail more information as to what this group will do. It sounds like they intend to recover as much as they can. This is a very basic translation.
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