According to the details on the bottom of the album page :-

“Wreck under restouration for F21 wing in Luleå.plane crashed 1954 and was raised from a swamp around 1998. one person (not me !)is working hard on it, most is done outdoor ! year around !”

That must have been some dig!!!

Probably the Do217 down at Fring. At work at the moment so nothing to hand for more details.

Kevin, reports are available from various sources; the USAF – was free but not fast and haven’t ordered any direct for many years, or at a cost from either Accident report.com (http://www.accident-report.com/world/europe/uk/uk4504.htm) or from AAIR (lhttp://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/dbahb.asp?offset=2175) Again not used either for sometime but personally favoured AAIR.

Damage categories range from 1-5 (1 being lesser damage) however in the latter part of WW2 ‘5’ seems to have been less used even in complete destruction cases. Conversely 5 has also been used on apparently less severe crashes. I would assume that it would depend a degree on the age/hours of the a/c as whether the damage was economic to repair rather as cars are ‘written off’ by insurance companies.

I’ve scratched my head over this before – ruling out several around the area that we’ve found in the past. However a candidate could be the mid air collision between a pair of 56FG P47Ms. 1Lt John F Frazier in 44-21126 & 1Lt Robert W Hoeflein in 44-21187. Frazier was killed in the crash of his a/c, but it appears that Hoeflien was able to land with some damage. The location from the accident report is listed as 7m NE of debden – right direction but about 3m short. However acc report locations can be notoriously inaccurate. The date was 1st April 1945 – a Sunday.

Jeff

I saw this thread a couple of days ago, my immediate thought was that the armour looked very familiar, so much so that I went through photos of the recovery of EJ108 parts thinking that we had found a very similiar section.
So if it is indeed from EJ108, far as I was aware it was still either in the museum at Hardwick or in our store, I’d be interested to know how it’s ended up in Somerset.

Jeff

I don’t wish to re-ignite the pro / anti dig debate that seems to spring up each time a recovery thread appears; however assuming the account in the link is correct, the case makes a mockery of the Protection of Military Remains Act with regard to the licence. The article states that the identity of the aircraft is not 100% clear and of the the 2 candidates both have a ‘missing’ crew member. I’m certain that if I applied for a licence with these unknowns it would be turned down.

Jeff

Off on a slight tangent, does anyone recall which film featured a scene with a pilot and wife/girlfriend walking in countryside and stumbling across a crashed 109 in a hedgerow or copse, If my very hazy memory serves me right she askes if there is anyone in it and he climbs on the wreck to see…………..In my mind they are played by Christopher Plummer and Suzannah York which probably isn’t helping matters.

Jeff