What started as a joke quickly turned serious. "A boy in the North Jutland town of Birkelse made an unexpected discovery when doing his history homework. Daniel Rom Kristiansen uncovered the wreckage - as well as the remains of the pilot - after being told by his father to ‘go out and find the plane that is supposed to have crashed in the field’. Klaus Kristiansen told local news station DR P4 Nordjylland that his grandfather once mentioned that a German plane had crashed in the fields behind their farm during the Second World War. “When my son Daniel was recently given homework about World War II, I jokingly told him to go out and find the plane that is supposed to have crashed out in the field,” said agricultural worker Kristiansen. The schoolboy and his dad promptly headed into the fields with a metal detector - initially just for fun, since Kristiansen believed that the wreckage had long since been removed. But the pair then began finding bits of wreckage. “We tried carefully digging with a trencher. More and more parts came up and the further we went, the more we found,” Kristiansen said to DR. After the amateur excavation turned up the remains of bones, the authorities were called, reports broadcaster DR. Police, bomb disposal experts and even German embassy representatives all arrived at the scene. “We also found documents and papers in the pockets of some clothes,” Kristiansen explained." http://www.thelocal.dk/20170307/danish-schoolboy-finds-buried-ww2-aircraft-and-pilot
I'd love it if you can find any follow-up articles on this. I'd be interested in finding out just who the pilot was. Depending on the time frame, this could have been a plane from JG 2 or 26 or if later in the war possibly from the Reich Defense Force.
Thanks for sharing Gordon. Interesting how often (relatively speaking) such finds are made. I believe 2 or 3 years ago a 109 and it's pilot were recovered in Italy, and another in Holland around the same time.
Curious as to why it remained undiscovered for so long? Makes you think of how many other tales were told that will turn out to be true.
often these fighters dive into the ground at high speed...they literally bury themselves deep down...
I too think there's many of these types of things buried around Europe. Planes just turned up missing after a mission. No one saw them go down or heard them on the radio. They just disappeared. This was especially true in Holland and other low-lying areas. As CAC said, they just augured into the ground. Where the ground was soft there probably wasn't even an explosion because the soft ground swallowed them up. Not a lot of debris. If it was a part of Holland where the Germans had flooded the polder then this could have easily happened.
German pilot from buried Denmark WW2 aircraft identified The pilot of a crashed Messerschmidt found buried in a northern Jutland field earlier this month has been identified. He was 19 years old. Pilot Hans Wunderlich was 19 years old when his fighter plane crashed over the Danish village of Birkelse.
Not just Fighters, a British program, Time Team I think, showed a excavation of a B-17 that augured into a English field. The wreck was known, but 50 years later they brought up a considerable amount of debris including a engine or two if I recall.
Im just curious about the documents. Luftwaffe, maybe Reich Defense Force unit papers. No telling what condition they're in at this point, but maybe something legible.
