Boy’s Backyard Historical Finding

Published on 10/16/2017
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Reaching Out To The Germans

Spokesman for the German embassy in Copenhagen, Marko Naoki Lins, explained the record keeping process. The special system contains records of deceased German soldiers, in addition to maintaining their graves, aided in the process of body identification. They attempted to match it with documentation in their records. A step closer to uncovering this pilot!

Reaching Out To The Germans

Reaching Out To The Germans

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Possible Identity

The World War II German plane historian, Soeren Flensted, speculated that this clearly inexperienced pilot may have been on a training mission. Flensted stated, “There are records that someone in northern Denmark crashed into a mire in November 1944, and it was impossible to get him up… So that could be him.” The dots were finally being connected, but what mission could this pilot have been on there?

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Possible Identity

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