In November 1944, or maybe it was December, a German fighter plane crashed down on the Kristiansen family farm in Denmark. But Daniel and his father, Klaus Kristiansen, decided there was no harm in searching for the plane with a metal detector. Then we suddenly came across bones and pieces of clothes,” Klaus Kristiansen told CNN. Some historians believe its autocannons likely killed more enemy pilots than any other fighter plane guns in World War II. In 2003, aviation archaeologists pulled such a fighter plane from the bottom of an icy Russian lake.

Source: National Post March 09, 2017 17:26 UTC