Nyvlt_art/ DepositphotosThe pilot of a crashed Messerschmidt found buried in a northern Jutland field earlier this month has been identified. Pilot Hans Wunderlich was 19 years old when his fighter plane crashed over the Danish village of Birkelse. Hans Wunderlich, 19 at the time of the crash, was born in Neusorg, a small town in the state of Bavaria, around 200km north of Munich, on July 22nd 1925. The pilot’s death was officially recorded on March 5th 1945 at Holenbrunn City Hall, in the municipality where Wunderlich’s father, also called Hans Wunderlich, lived. He is “likely to be laid to rest at a war cemetery in Denmark,” Söchtig told Nordjyske.

Source: The Local March 24, 2017 08:48 UTC