WIX Archives

Re: Swedish wreck recovery

Posted by Mikael Olrog on Mon Jul 15, 2002 09:36:56 AM

In reply top Re: Swedish wreck recovery posted by Cees on Mon Jul 15, 2002 05:18:40 AM

The Heinkel you probably saw a photo of is still there at Lake Gr?velsj?n. It is situated more or less exactly on the border to Norway. THere's a museum at Gr?velsj?n which tells the story of that plan and some Ju 52s. They also arrange treckings to visit a couple of wrecks. You make excerssions over the day to some of the wrecks around. I haven't had the opprotunity to participate yet myself.

There are also stuff from other crashes that are excavated now and then. I've visited a SAAB J29 wreck site in the Stockholm area (yes I got a souvenir! ;-) and there are other palces around. I hope to make it to Easy Elsie in august

Unfortunately I think that many wrecks have been recovered or many parts retrieved by the authourities, both because that the number of wrecks are less than in Norway and Finland, but also because we were not involved in a war, so we could send the manpower and resources on recovery expeditions.

There are a couple of books in Englis about every allied and axis aircraft that landed or crashed in Sweden during WWII so one can find material in them to work with. Also there are losslists for Swedish Air Force Aircraft which can yield things. Especially when it comes to water wrecks.

I wouldn't mind a recovered Re 2000 for example...

/Mikael

: Hi Richard,
:
: That's why I'm so interested in the Swedish recoveries, I
: remember seeing a book about aircraft which came down in S
: weden with photographs showing a He111 on the shore of a l
: ake, with all paint peeled away but substantially intact.
: unfortunately my Swedish is terrible so couldn't read the
: book, and only looked at the pictures.
:
: The circumstances in Sweden must be similar to Norway so t
: here is an enormous potential for bringing back new airfra
: mes from the cold.
:
: Cees

Follow Ups: