WWII German planes buried in Indiana

• Oct 15, 2013

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Njaco

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Fla-eee-dah!

Has anybody heard anything more about this?

WWII German planes buried in Indiana - Video

 

• Oct 15, 2013

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Very cool. They said that they found whole fuselages that were buried, but have not recovered them yet.

I am very interested in seeing what they pull up.

Imagine if all those airframes had ended up in a museum instead of under the ground. I can understand why, but it still was a shame and a waste.

 

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Not heard any more on this but would love to.

 

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Didn't we have a member that's part of the archeology team, that's been researching that, have a thread about the progress at one time?

 

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It's Freeman Field, so many WW II German types were ultimately destroyed there that it makes you weep. More info

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Freeman-Field-Recovery-Team/100776559984890

Freeman Army Airfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Military Analysis: Freeman Field.


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Found the thread!

http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/basic/digging-buried-luftwaffe-aircraft-parts-indiana-22641.html

 

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2 posts and has not been back since.

 

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Crimea_River said:

2 posts and has not been back since.

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Sure, why not?

If you were them, which would you do, spend time on a forum or go looking for rare Luftwaffe aircraft?

 

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Must be a hell of a hole!

 

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Sadly, it wouldn't be much of a hole, word has it that the aircraft were bulldozed and buried in shallow trenches

 

• Oct 16, 2013

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...Not all of the captured planes assigned to Freeman were transferred. Some which were left at the field were destroyed or buried. Examples of aircraft that have no record of leaving Freeman Field are a Dornier Do 335 experimental interceptor; a Heinkel He 219 radar-equipped night fighter; an Arado Ar 234 twin-engined jet bomber, two Messerschmitt Me 163 rocket-powered interceptors, two Focke-Wulf Fw 190 interceptors and a Junkers Ju 88 two-engine multi-role aircraft....

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