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Re: Perfect Day 3

Posted by Mikael Olrog on Sun Jan 27, 2002 02:36:26 PM

In reply top Perfect Day 3 posted by Paul McMillan on Sat Jan 26, 2002 10:07:11 AM

Talking about perfect days, I've just come back from Gardemoen and Bod? in Norway where I've managed to see 5,5 Ju 88's (and numerous other warbirds and recovered remains) since thursday... As you can imagine I'm in seventh heaven!!! Walking on small clouds...;-) I've actually had difficult to fall asleep in the evenings on this trip. I've had this feelin you had when you were a small kid and you got loads of presents on x-mas eve and you couldn't decide which toy to play with first because you wanted to play with them all at once! Thats the feeling you get after spending some hours in they're storage hangars, the museums, restoration shops and listening to their stories and plans for the future...

Paul, believe me, these guys really know what they are doing. I got to see some examples of the documentation they have on wreck sites that they have researched and either recovered, or evaluated for possible future recovery - if there are any usable remains there. I was really impressed by the professionalism, effort and dedication I saw amongst the people I met these few days.

As Dave writes they're planning to do some more recoveries this summer so we can just relax and enjoy the good news when they come.

Tomorrow me and my friend will leave the 40 rolls of film we took for development and then there will be some serious updates made on my site in a couple of weeks time..:o)

/Mikael





: I am reading the account of the Norwegian Campaign 1940 in
: Fledgling Eagles
:
: Now.. I was wondering how much of the stuff that was lost
: is still around. (Norway being a big country, with not muc
: h population). It seems to me the Norwegians could get a m
: ighty fine collection up with recoveries and swaps.. For i
: nstance.. Anybody know if any of this stuff has been recov
: ered:
:
: a) Lake Jonsvannet - Ju 88 of 1/KG 30 crashed while attemp
: ing to land on Frozen Lake and later sank(17.4.1940)
:
: b) Hover MF 11 F-332 burned Lake Mosvaan 18.4.1940. Wrecka
: ge later sank when Ice melted.
:
: c) We all know about the Gladiators on Lake Lesjaskog in N
: orway. According to WW Directory 3 have been recovered. Pl
: us 1 planned. Anyway.. There were about 16 lost in total a
: t this location (according to the book) plus a couple of S
: kuas (so there is agood place to go and find one of these,
: whoever asked).. That leaves a whole sqn in fresh water!
:
: d) We all know about the Ju52/3 on Lake Hartvigvann. There
: were 12 lost in total (this must be the place mentioned b
: y the Phoney people) Ok 5 have been recovered, that leaves
: 7!)
:
: e) All sorts of other stuff force landed all over the plac
: e, the book has pictured of Swordfish, Norwegian Air Force
: Gladiators He-111...
:
: e) Skua L3048 force landed on a sandpit but later had to b
: e destroyed..
:
: e) the fjords of Norway must be good 'salt' place for airc
: raft witness Fw-190 recovery! all sorts were ditched in th
: em including Skua and Swordfish so what about them?
:
: Fanisnating book.. Now where did I put my snorkal and pass
: port!

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