He 177 shot down over eastern Poland - next part

[Peter Mikolajski]

Two months ago remains of He 177 were found in Skiwa village (near Siemiatycze), eastern part of Poland. More details on Luftwaffe Archives Group.

I wrote that according to villagers claims this plane was shot down by Russian plane on June 8th, 1944, together with another German plane, but yesterday I've got an e-mail with new details.

According to memories of one of villagers:
- Accident took plane a week later, on June 15th, 1944;
- There were three planes, not two;
- There were two pilots in each plane;

All German pilots were able to jump out and survived except one. One of pilots told that their planes were coming from east and they were told that there should be no enemy in the air. But suddenly English planes attacked their planes and shot all three down.
Wrecks were later found by Germans and the most valuable parts were dismantled by special unit. Villagers were told that each plane costed one million Reichsmark.

Any comments?