Junkers JU 88 wreck off Selinunte beach

[FRANCESCO M LENTINI]

Dear friends, I'm happy to share with you some of the pics that I have taken in Selinunte (Sicily) this summer and autumn.
Little preface: when I was young, often during my summer holidays (I live in Rome) I heard rumours from the old fishermen about " a german plane that crashed in the sea just off the Selinunte acropolis, the pilot rescued and the engine soon removed"; also friend of mine sometimes told me that the plane was visible: fuselage, wings, and broken away also the tail. All depended from the winter season if wreck was under or over the sand in the next summer. But from the end of the 70' none seen the wreck again.
Every years I tried to find it but nothing.
Finally after hard scirocco wind of the last autumn at the beginning of the last summer the news that I'm waiting from over 30 years: the plane was again visible!

The wreck is located between 3.0-3.2 meters deepth: left wing (9.0 meter lenght) well over the sand connected with the fuselage, central fuselage well visible, right wing barely visible in the sand, no tail. In october the left wing was a little more discernible from the sand and the new segment free from marine plants. I identified the plane like a JU 88 (see the wing attachments for the ailerons, any comments are welcomed).

I would like also to know the last mission and the fate of the crewmen of this elusive plane.
Thanks in advance.

Francesco Maria Lentini

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