Aircraft recovered from Dutch reclaimed waters

The Soesterberg depot also has 3 or 4 ? B-17 engines on display and the
horizontal tailplane.
I also saw the remains of a b-24 top turret.
B.T.W where can i find more info/pictures of the b-17 dinah Might?

Cheers,

Robert

Indeed a cracking book TT. 😀

Sea Hornet remains, Liberator noses in orchards, and they actually scrapped that Dutch B-24 after all the effort 😮

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Yes, but a lot of that B-24 is on show at Soesterberg among which are an undercarriage leg with tyre, the instrument panel with central pedestal and the nose turret. A lot more is in store such as the nosesection forward of the windscreen.

The complete B-17 was named Dinah Might and was found in 1946/1947 IIRC, the olive drab had been weathered back to almost orange. Due to the high reeds it had been hidden for so long (but not very much longer after discovery).

Cheers

Cees

I think you’re thinking of the recoveries from the Dutch Polders noted in Bruce Robertsons ‘Epics of Aviation Archaeology’ c.1977 (PSL) from memory as James says the majority of recoveries were carried out because of sea defence and drainage work when the airframes themselves were not regarded as being ‘worth’ anything except to the scrapman. IIRC there were several B17s – one very intact, a complete B-24 and a Wellington amongst others.

TT

Indeed a cracking book TT. 😀

Sea Hornet remains, Liberator noses in orchards, and they actually scrapped that Dutch B-24 after all the effort 😮

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it’s ijselmeer or ijsselmeer

I have a video called “Some of our aircraft(Or airmen) are no longer missing about a Dutch army unit that has the job of clearing crashed aircraft from recently drained areas of the issellmere. I’ts probably the wrong spelling but it seems to have been made in the seventies or eighties by the cars and takes one veteran back to his crashed aircraft as they are excavated. If you are interested in getting a copy I will get all the details from the case when I get home from work.

I think you’re thinking of the recoveries from the Dutch Polders noted in Bruce Robertsons ‘Epics of Aviation Archaeology’ c.1977 (PSL) from memory as James says the majority of recoveries were carried out because of sea defence and drainage work when the airframes themselves were not regarded as being ‘worth’ anything except to the scrapman. IIRC there were several B17s – one very intact, a complete B-24 and a Wellington amongst others.

TT

In particular, I remember a pic of what seemes to be a relatively intact B-17 sitting on it’s belly.

I know the pic you are thinking of – there was at least one almost complete B-17 recovered, and photographed, in IIRC the 1950s, but it was scrapped some time after recovery. Then, it wasn’t valuable of course…

No complete machine from that aerea survives (so far) in Holland, only bits and pieces. BW Roger