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Roman, I have contact with Mr. Stickney and his flight engineer Mr. William Snow Both are alive and kicking! I wrote 22 emails to all kinds of email addresses I found on the web, yesterday Mr. William Snow answered: "Dear Michael, My name is William Snow I was the flight engineer on...

Oh, and I bought a Fisher F75 today....hope it's as good as they say....

@ Roman: Good work!!! Really looks like it was the Easy Maid. It seems there were 3 or 4 different Easy Maids attached to different units.. It's a little hard to differentiate between them. I sent emails to all the people named above, maybe I'll get an answer soon. I'll will post...

I will take a look at the book....thanx Roman :) I found something out on the net.... It looks like it could be our A/C... B-24 Web Board Its an old post from the year 2000 and very interesting because the fact that all crewmembers bailed out and were taken to Perg is the same as with...

Here's the reference dokument for the dates of the crashes..

Good morning! Thanks, will look in an hour or so. I'll put pictures up as soon as we find new parts and pieces. Thanks to everyone for the help so far! Michael

I have a date! I actually have two dates.... one of our unknown four engined aircraft and one of the other aircraft I described as having crashed north of us. This one seemed to be four engined too. Our plane was shot down on the 25th of April 1945, 15 days before the war ended. It is written...

Yep thats about it The forrest is very steep and totaly viewable from the road above. Thats the stupid part about the site, almost everybody that saw us searching (about 10) stopped and wanted to know what we were doing, just out of curiosity. I said we were looking for the water pipeline...

Here's a map of the crash site....

:lol: Thanx!! :D Will tell you all about the crash site, have to make a few fotos of the area first.... will probably have to wait till saturday (I leave in the dark and come home in the dark) Maps will follow today @erich: Yes it was 8.8 stationed in St. Valentin... Furthermore...

Erich, no date or year yet...this will take a few weeks, we don't want to wake sleeping dogs here... But it was definatly downed by the St. Valentin Flak...I will Post maps and area fotos tomorrow...

Flyboy, thats exactly what it is like.... What do you think it could be? The stiff stuff is more like canvas with a thin coating on it...

That was it till now, we have only just begun to search.... The site is 450 meters from our farmhouse.... I need a good metal detector (I bought mine for 45€ on ebay, bad stuff)... Any good ideas? Next search will probably be this sunday... Roman, will you post the pictures in the other...

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