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Old 29th March 2011, 10:15
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Re: Luftwaffe salvages

Hi Vinni,

like Andreas already answered, there was awhole industrie involved.
>>"a German plane crashes in a lake. The location of the crash is known".
Depending on the available salvage units and the conditions (depth, access), they tried to salvage the wreck.

I was in contact with a former Luftwaffe pilot and salvage diver (He died last year) he provide me some info. He was salvaging many aircrafts in wartime, but specially also after war with his own company.

And that's the problem today for example concerning my POI Bavaria: We have some information about location of sunken AC, but nobody knows, which AC was salvaged in wartime and in the fifties. It took me about 8 years, to get an almost complete overview about.


Greetings

Lino
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