The North Jutland field where the crashed WW2 plane was found. Photo: Henning Bagger/ScanpixA boy in the North Jutland town of Birkelse made an unexpected discovery when doing his history homework. Klaus Kristiansen told local news station DR P4 Nordjylland that his grandfather once mentioned that a German plane had crashed in the fields behind their farm during the Second World War. Photo: Henning Bagger/ScanpixThe aircraft discovered by the Kristiansens is a Messerschmidt Bf 109, a model used in large numbers by the Luftwaffe during World War II. Kristiansen told DR that his family had worked on the land where the fighter plane was found for “20-30 years” without have any idea of the secret under the ground.

Source: The Local March 07, 2017 13:41 UTC