Its very difficult to see how any respect is shown by the people who dig on these sights with a JCB, to fallen airmen if they know full well someone is missing. the article i read on the site was a load of rubbish how they stumbled accidently on this bomber in 1992 !! they were out with metal detectors against the wishes of all the local people. One of the wing spars or under carriage legs was sticking out of the ground. several sq meters of rubber fuel tank was also sticking out of the ground and a huge bundle of wire from the burnt out tyre.
I found lots of bits and pieces although i was only 11 in 1970, of note was German money and side arm bullets. It was an incredible peaceful spot off the main paths, the only real give away was the strong smell of fuel from the rubber tanks that had stained the clay black all about and the line of much younger trees where it had come down. One day a team of vandals turned and desecrated the place with a JCB cutting a wide path through the woods and digging up what they wanted and then clearing off leaving the place turned over and filled in. If ever there was a case of total lack of respect for the dead it was these so called enthusiasts who just couldn’t let things be.
What happened to the bits ?? well most of the small bits went to a museum that shut down soon after and they were lost. Lets hope it was all worth it for the few who justify this vandalism in the name of history.

You do not know the site i refer to as all personal were accounted for and buried. As you say, using my logic do the people of Dresden have respect for the RAF bomber crews ? well i would imagine its an individual and personal thing.

I agree and as time goes by such will be the case. You notice i was talking about the attitude in the 1970s, already that attitude is changing but not much respect, if that’s what is needed, is shown to the jews being shovelled up by bulldozer in archive footage from death camps so i doubt people will be too bothered about any greater respect for German airmen.
The Germans as a nation ruined nearly a century of generations lives around the world . Even when my mum died at 88 years old last year she still couldn’t stand aircraft flying over here head, she was bombed shot at and spent here teenage years working in a hospital full of horrendously wounded troops..I have a wealth odfsympathy for those sent to fight and nothing but admiration for each of them but it stops short of those who started it and perpetuated it for 6 years………..basically because they lost the first time. Can i discriminate between an German airman dropping an HE bomb on a row of houses or a guard shooting jews in cold blood for fun ?? not really.

Its interesting how times change, I found a JU88 in the woods in the 1970s in Surrey
I did some research recently into the crash and found details on a German site and it seems eye witness accounts said body parts were hanging in the trees after the crash and the crew were gathered up and buried in Dorking cemetery. i had so many bullet heads that had gone off in the crash they filled a carrier bag :-)..i can still remember the stench of fuel everywhere and that was 35 years later .

My first encounter was in 1970 as a 10 year old with a JU88 that we found crashed in some woods near where i lived. My friends uncle had been an ARP warden in the war and told us of this crash site so we set of to find it. Didnt take long although it was in the thick of the woods because the smell of diesel/fuel was so strong it lead us to it pretty quick. We found a wing spar and undercarriage sticking out of the ground , a mass of wire in a ball that was a burnt out tyre on the end and sheets of very heavy thick rubber stick again out of the ground and that was the origin of the ” smell”..
Once we started to dig we recovered hundreds of bullet heads that had gone off in the fire and travelled only a foot or so into the thick clay slope. I even found a leg bone and ball joint with some side arm bullets and some Swastika money with it..
We used to go there and dig for a while but eventually we lost interest. 20 years later a “crash site destruction team” turned up with a JCB and ransacked the place. I think the remains went to here http://www.wingsmuseum.co.uk/wings_museum.htm
I recently found this..

http://www.aircrewremembrancesociety.com/luft1944/Straube.html