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Old 2nd October 2013, 05:05
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Angry Re: Loch Ewe WWII JU88 raids

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Originally Posted by STEVE CHADWICK View Post
DaveM2, the JU188D-3 reconnaissance plane that came down on the 28th December 1944 in Loch Broom crashed between Isle Martin and the mainland. The undercarriage was on display for a while outside the Ullapool Museum, then it was moved south somewhere. The wreckage as been much broken up by trawl fishing and anchors from factory ships during the mackerel fishing 'high' of the 80-'s/90's.
Thanks, a pity, however no where near the tragedy of the basically intact 188 recovered from a Polish lake and scrapped in the 1960s.
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