Is There A Lanc in The Lake in Peenemunde ?

The Men who fired the V2s against England

The Men who fired the V2s against England – Murray R. Barber and Michael Keuer.

‘This substantial book provides an invaluable contribution to the operational history of the A4 (V2) rocket. Little has been written about the secret activities of the special troops whose role was to protect and fire the operational A4 (V2) rocket under field conditions in World War Two.

Carefully researched, the book goes a long way to filling this void. As the result of many years tracking down the few remaining veterans the authors have complied eleven individual biographies of rocket troops whose pre-combat occupations included a scientist, chemist, engineer, toolmaker and builder. The text is written clearly and concisely and is well referenced.

The book provides a fascinating insight into the day-to-day lives of the rocket troops including their personal combat experiences, attitudes, humour and interpersonal relations. Particularly intriguing are their interactions with such Peenemünde notables as Dr. Wernher von Braun and Major General Walter Dornberger. Light is also thrown on the establishment of the field units and the training of the troops. The fact that several of the veterans interviewed have subsequently passed away highlights the urgency and importance of collecting such historical material. The scholarly work is highly recommended to any one with an interest in the history of Hitler’s rocket troops and the field deployment of the world’s first long-range rocket.’

http://www.thetatteredflag.com/our-books/51.html

Further thread here – some good pictures of her intended target 🙂

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=73401

re;

could the airframe withstand being moved? All the same theres a heck of a lot there. But if its near a power station euugh not good news.

Is it not also a designated war grave?

Not sure. The crew’s remains were recovered and they were buried nearby but the location was lost, so they only have Runnymede entries, AFAIK. There was interest from the relatives in trying to find them at one point but I heard nothing more.

I seem to recall the government were trying to sell the land around it a few years ago and there was very tight restrictions on the wreck site associated with the sale, but again I don’t know how it turned out.

A search of WiX or here will probably turn up more details.

Easily seen on Google maps…

From a google search , is this DV202, or is there more than one Lancaster in the water near there?

Just after the fall of the wall some RAF sports divers went up, a fair amount was still there in 1990 though some had been taken for scrap over the years, one of the divers said most of the wings were intact but visability was just about zero and its sitting in a chemical soup of muck from the powerstation. I think someone drowned diving on it during the DDR days so the locals had become a bit wary.

when we visited Deter Proffer and his guys very kindly put us up and showed us around the museum and his own private airforce in the powerstation

Is it not also a designated war grave?

As I understand it, it was inspected during the runway extension in the 50’s and found to have ordnance on board. The authorities have pretty much blocked any notion of a salvage attempt ever since, though it’s been dived fairly regularly.

Amazing that a chunk of wing is still attached, Would be great if it can be recovered and put ond display on site. It is part of Peenemunde history after all.

Cees

Here, I think.

It is being worked on from what we are told.

Thankyou Peter I did a search with the title above and key publishing and nothing came back from google! Is it politic to ask if the search function will ever work again?

Due to the search function not working.. here is a birds eye view of the wreck.

http://www.bomber-command.de/dv202_ph.html

Yes it has been much talked about on this forum in the past..