I’ve heard horror stories about the remains of german pilots being desicrated in Russia – a friend of mine brought up a bf109 from a lake with the pilot still in it. The russian recovery crew promptly tossed him back in the lake – there is still a lot of serious animosity towards the germans in the east.
Maybe it’s easier for us to see things differently, as we in Britain were not over run by Nazi occupiers and forced to endure the terror of that brutal regime. I can believe that there are still strong feelings in Russia, and probably the other way round too, especially in Eastern Germany, it will probably never be totally forgotten. I hope that whoever was flying this machine will be flown home for a proper burial, I assume that he was flying with ID tags and could be identified?
They mention a swamp, I presume that it has frozen? I understand that the Yak 1 currently under restoration at Hawker Restorations was recovered from a frozen lake in somewhat more complete condition though!
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