One of the mysteries of the war may be about to be solved. It still wouldn’t explain what caused it to go down, though.
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One of the mysteries of the war may be about to be solved. It still wouldn’t explain what caused it to go down, though.
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The bottom of the english channel must be littered with hundreds of WW2 aircraft that didn’t make it back.
No, most of them would have gone down in the North Sea. Not many bombing raids to France.
But lots of Luftwaffe bombing raids across the English Channel from France in 1940. Lots of Messerschmitt 109s ran out of gas on the way home, damaged bombers etc.
In 1941, after winning the Battle of Britain, the RAF took the fight to the Luftwaffe in France with what were essentially nuisance raids called “Rhubarbs”. Got their clocks cleaned by the Luftwaffe who then had a home ground advantage. Lost lots of experienced fighter pilots captured or killed and no doubt lots of ditchings or bailouts over the Channel.
Lots of bombing raids to France from Britain prior to and after D-Day also. I’m not sure anyone will ever know how many aircraft are on the bottom of the English Channel.
And because of all that, UXO is still a problem both in the English Channel and North Sea.
I’m not really impressed with TIGHAR. With all their expeditions, they still haven’t found the wreckage of Earhart’s plane in the vicinity of Nikumaroro. That’s a pretty small area to search. If the plane isn’t there, then she didn’t land there as their theory holds.