{"id":70735,"date":"2017-03-09T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70735"},"modified":"2017-03-09T08:03:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T13:03:57","slug":"high-school-project-leads-to-german-fighter-wreckage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70735","title":{"rendered":"High School project leads to German fighter wreckage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Danish 14-year-old Daniel Rom Kristiansen was looking for high school homework project when his father, Klaus, jokingly suggested that he search for the plane that his grandfather had told him crashed in a field near the family farm. From the Daily Mail<\/a>;<\/p>\n

When the machine started beeping over a patch of boggy ground the pair started digging – but realised they would need to go deeper.<\/p>\n

They borrowed an excavator from a neighbour, and around four to six metres down, they discovered the remains of the plane.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Further excavation yielded the remains of the Messerschmitt pilot and some of his clothing which contained paperwork;<\/p>\n

‘In the first moment it was not a plane,’ Mr Kristiansen told the BBC. ‘It was maybe 2,000 – 5,000 pieces of a plane. And we found a motor… then suddenly we found parts of bones, and parts from [the pilot’s] clothes.<\/p>\n

‘And then we found some personal things – books, a wallet with money… Either it was a little Bible or it was Mein Kampf – a book in his pocket. We didn’t touch it, we just put it in some bags. A museum is now taking care of it. I think there’s a lot of information in those papers.’<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

[Klaus] added that he has lived there for 40 years, oblivious as to what was hidden just beneath the surface. <\/p>\n

‘We had never seen anything on the surface,’ he said. <\/p>\n

‘Not a single bit of metal. He was telling a lot of stories, my grandfather. Some of them were not true, and some of them were true – but this one was true. Maybe I should have listened to him a bit more when he was alive!’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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