From the March 8, 2017, CNN "Boy finds WWII plane with pilot's remains in the cockpit" by Judith Vonberg.
Fourteen-year-old Daniel Kristiansen and his father, Klaus, have discovered what is believed to be a Messerschmitt fighter plane buried in a field on their farm near Birkelse, in northern Denmark. He was using a metal detector out in the field, hoping to find something to show at school.
He remembered his grandfather telling him about a German plane crashing there during the war in November or December 1944.
They found the pilot's papers and believe the German was flying his plane from a training base for German pilots in Aalborg, a nearby city.
An ordnance team is working on the site to determine there is nothing dangerous.
--GreGen
My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
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