Ju188 D-2 from lake Mamry in Poland (sunk in 1945) - old story.

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More info.:

"'...In late summer 1961. we visited the village of Kal Lake Mamry, zanurkowaliśmy and found an object that even breathtaking, at a depth of 12 m, on a flat bottom, lay a complete, powerful, twin-engine German aircraft. We raised him from the bottom and then broke sensation; plane was Ju -188 D2, machine, at that time a very modern, which is expected to serve in the Norwegian Kirkenes, which housed the German unit long interview. This in Kirkenes German aircraft took off in search of Allied convoys bound for Murmansk with supplies for the Red Army. We excavated the plane was flying to Italy, which was confirmed by our maps found in the cabin, but forcing him to land on the lake? He was in perfect condition, there were no signs of downing, or other disaster. Significant was the lack of remains of the crew, which made it possible to believe that there was an emergency landing after the crew left the machine. A closer examination of the Junkers Jumo engines brought the brand part of the solution history - one of them was the so-called "hoof" - cracked piston and connecting rod pierced the body, engine block - and turned off the motor locked him out of use. Although from what I know that each twin plane can continue to fly on one engine, but in this case, the crew decided otherwise. Each and every mining disaster, we try to explain the gathering descriptions, names, and situations - in this case, we found that all happened at the turn of 1944/45, the aircraft, equipped with modern radars and equipment to perform aerial photographs, flew from Norway to Italy and somewhere along the way there has been a failure. The crew apparently decided that it is better to remove it and landed on the frozen lake Mamry and then Masuria were still German. They left the plane and went for help, which, however, did not come quickly enough to forestall further occurrence. We do not know for sure, but probably under the weight of an aircraft weighing 16 tons of ice broke and Ju-188 D2 sank to the bottom. Later attempts to bring him - his body near the connection of the propellers was girdled with steel ropes - it is possible that it tried to raise the Germans, who were well aware that the defect is small, and the value of large aircraft - especially in the last year of the war. Mining has failed and only sixteen years later, for our case, the aircraft stood on dry ground. Unfortunately, his fate was sealed from the start, thanks to our principal, came to Skawina aluminum smelter that processed it for symbolic teaspoons milk bars. ...."'

Source:
http://www.wolf.pl/kacik_polawiacz.html


Can we try ID pilots and Werk Nr. ????
It can be interested because one of my collegues from Germany - uncel was KIA in this area (now we have contact only by email). He was pilot of bomber (Beobachter/Observer) so if I will know crew names I can ask about more information about his uncle - maybe he was one of them ? It is not joke but I can try.