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Re: Pax River Buried aircraft...
Dave
Interesting you mentioned Germany. I think they have the policy as Austria - lost war goods passed over to the country. Unfortunately whereas Austria will allow a recovery and grant a licence, Germany claims everything for the German State - most of which they can't afford to recover/restore and do not seem to allow for any trades/recovery.
Surely you can allow a deal ofof say three recoveries - DTM Berlin gets one restored and the other two get sold/exported.
Having undertaking a lot of research on the 2TAF for Axel Urbanke's book with the Dora 9, I know for a fact there were significnat loses in the lake during April/May 1945.
Most involved Schwerin/Muritz and Plauersee though Schwerin was the main area of operations for 2TAF.
These German loses either covered ditchings, collisions and combat.
Aircraft in the reports for Schwerinersee involved Bf109's, Fw190D-9's, Buchmanns and Seibel 204's. (In Bad Zwischenhahn there is reportedly two Bf110's that collided). Never found any Allied loses in the lakes - Tempest V would be nice!
When th Fw190D was recovered from Schwerin in 1990/91 they went after an aircraft which flew too low and crashed on the lake (17 April 45) and they knew the area. The Fw190D that was recovered was one shot down a few days earlier and this was after only searching one small area of the lake!
In addition - they found a silver MiG-15/17 with Russian stars - a 1950's loss. All these are still at the bottom of the lake!
With regards the other lakes - we have heard what is in there and must also include a number of Russian types? - La5/7, Il-2, Yak9??
Dr Steinle could do with trying to get some arrangements/agreements in place to get some of these recovered/displayed and/or restored.
regards
Mark
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