Dating The Crash
Even before experts dated the artifacts and looked into records, Klaus Kristiansen had his suspicions about when the plane went down. He said, “We think it was around November or December 1944.” This is because his own grandfather once mentioned baking Christmas cookies with Klaus’s grandmother and uncle at the time.
Dating The Crash
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A Secret Skeleton
Besides the aircraft, there were remains of what they speculated to be the pilot of this WWII German aircraft. Once they discovered the decomposed body, the shock to their system was so great it put their health insurance coverage in jeopardy! These remains included bones, a jacket and trousers that were part of a Nazi pilot uniform, all buried under the field’s surface.
A Secret Skeleton