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Posted by Rob Mears on Fri Jul 12, 2002 07:19:08 PM

In reply top More Trondheim 'fresh water wrecks' info posted by Rob Mears on Fri Jul 12, 2002 07:15:21 PM

"I live in Norway/Trondheim. In April 1940 the Germans used a frozen lake named Jonsvannet, about 10km. from Trondheim, as a make-shift airfield. On the 20th of April the Ice broke up and a few planes went through. There is hard to obtain exact numbers of how many that went through the ice, but a diver, a friend of mine talked that he had observed one Ju-87 and a couple more he could not recognize. I know for a fact that one He 111 (Kgr.100) and two Ju-88`s (Kgr.30) went through, but there are rumored to be more. The diver could tell that the planes seemed intact i.e. mostly in one piece, and not to deep in the lake. The problem is that the lake is our town?s drinking water and the bureaucrats do not want any interference with regards to bringing these relics to the surface. Pollution, no historical interest and so on.
Outside of Hommelvik, about 25km. east of Trondheim divers recently found a Fw-200 in the sea. Again it was this diver friend who told about it. This one was also intact he said, with guns and all. It is certanly a machine from KG. 40 as they lost four of them, crashing/ditching into the sea near to Vaernes airfield in the period 42.-44."

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