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Old 29th March 2011, 10:40
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Re: Luftwaffe salvages

Thanks Lino and Andreas!
That is some nice information. I assume they tried to recover for instance the engine.
I have been researching several wrecks, and it seems that in this lake at least 3 Luftwaffe fighter planes (Me-109) weren't salvaged (all must have crashed in the shallow lake in 1943 or later in the war); two of them were recovered in the early 1960's by the Dutch airforce and number 3 was not salvaged as far as I know, since the pilot is still missing (though that alone does not guarantee that the plane is still in the water). Therefore I assumed that the aircraft I'm focussing on wasn't recovered. But if I understand correct there is very little information about what planes were recovered and which aircraft were not? And is there a way to find out what Bergungs-unit operated in the Netherlands? Maybe there are archives that could be researched to find out if the planes I'm looking for were removed from the water or not.
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